The PACT Act, The USPS and You

[Liandri]

Can't be helped. Stock up or ship out or stop all together.

[tom502]

Just make up a sender name and address on the package, they never verify that.

[ares703]

The PACT Act, Verizon sold out to the Hooterville phone company in my area, my TV's going dark at the end of the year, and my wife won't sleep with me, what's next!?

[danielan]

The PACT Act, Verizon sold out to the Hooterville phone company in my area, my TV's going dark at the end of the year, and my wife won't sleep with me, what's next!?

Well, it apparently won't be a phone call, watching tv, receiving snus via USPS or sleeping with the wife.

On the other hand. Google Voice is available now without an invite. Hulu and Clicker.com are better then TV. UPS still delivers snus to most places. And there's always Internet porn...

[EricHill78]

If this gets worse I might just go back to cigarettes.

[danielan]

It's not really the snuspocalypse it could have been.

Snus is still legal.

We can still get a pretty wide variety of snus.

We have 3 sites that have US warehouses and can ship to us via UPS (and UPS is reasonable domestically - like $10-$15 for shipping).

I assume service and inventory levels will improve over the next month as PACT and acquisitions settle down.

Swedish Match and Rick are working to get snus into B&M stores.

The age verification will be a bit of a pain, but I think most people can figure out a way to get that taken care of.

The prices went up, but not as bad as it could have.

A pack of smokes still costs $5+ and lasts .5 to 1 days. A can of snus is usually a bit cheaper and lasts 2-3 days.

Being able to breathe is also a bit of a plus, IMO.

But it will get worse. It will get worse for cigarettes too though.

[GoVegan]

It's not really the snuspocalypse it could have been.

Snus is still legal.

We can still get a pretty wide variety of snus.

We have 3 sites that have US warehouses and can ship to us via UPS (and UPS is reasonable domestically - like $10-$15 for shipping).

I assume service and inventory levels will improve over the next month as PACT and acquisitions settle down.

Swedish Match and Rick are working to get snus into B&M stores.

The age verification will be a bit of a pain, but I think most people can figure out a way to get that taken care of.

The prices went up, but not as bad as it could have.

A pack of smokes still costs $5+ and lasts .5 to 1 days. A can of snus is usually a bit cheaper and lasts 2-3 days.

Being able to breathe is also a bit of a plus, IMO.

But it will get worse. It will get worse for cigarettes too though.

Agreed and they have General Original Minis. not as good as a Granit Mini but they will do!

[bipolarbear1968]

If this gets worse I might just go back to cigarettes.

That's the purpose, i suppose.

[EricHill78]

Good points and getting my northener order today helped...
Quick question on the us sites, I know of northener, and getsnus, which are connected. What is the third site?

[lxskllr]

Quick question on the us sites, I know of northener, and getsnus, which are connected. What is the third site?

That's it AFAIK. Snusjet was based in Texas, but they're reorganizing; probably out of country.

[EbenezerScrews]

I asked SnusJet this yesterday, they said they will have a warehouse in TX and one in PA, don't know when though.

[danielan]

Yeah, I was counting SnusJet.

[EricHill78]

Thanks guys... a warehouse in Texas, that's interesting because I live in San Antonio

[knucklesnus]

Could someone please explain what this PACT act means? There's so much disinfo on it I don't know which end is up.
Can you give me the short version?


So far I got:
1. No more USPS, which means you'll have to use UPS, which will be 10x as slower and cost 10x as much.

UPS ****ing sucks.

What else?

[lxskllr]

You have to sign for your deliveries, and provide age verification. There's also FDA rules that come into effect. They aren't related to PACT, but I associate them in my head. Screwed is screwed. The agency doesn't matter so much to me :^D