Liquor shipment help

[Really a McQueen]

When the bottle shop operator advised you that it was illegal to ship that particular liquor, they may have been referring to local or state laws. Thus, it might have been legal (under federal rules) to ship the tequila by say FedEx to you, but your state (or the shipper's) may require that everything over some arbitrary alcohol percentage has to go through specific channels.

[Cowher]

When the bottle shop operator advised you that it was illegal to ship that particular liquor, they may have been referring to local or state laws. Thus, it might have been legal (under federal rules) to ship the tequila by say FedEx to you, but your state (or the shipper's) may require that everything over some arbitrary alcohol percentage has to go through specific channels.

Correct. It's my state law that's the issue not theirs. What channels would you be referring to?

[Really a McQueen]

Correct. It's my state law that's the issue not theirs. What channels would you be referring to?

For example, in Oregon, it used to be that all hard liquor was purchased from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC). The liquor first was shipped to the OLCC warehouse, where it was inventoried and the tax stamp applied and recorded. At that point, the liquor was then delivered to a state run liquor store for retail sale.

Now days, many liquor stores here are run by a licensed concessionaire, and the stores can order directly from wholesalers, but not out of state retailers. The wholesalers have to notify the OLCC of what was ordered, by whom, and how much was shipped. They then pay the required tax to the state. So if your tequila was available from a wholesaler, it could be ordered. If it was at a retailer, you would be SOL.