{"id":15008,"date":"2022-10-11T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/?p=15008"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:39:22","slug":"call-to-action-on-home-delivery-of-alcohol-by-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/blog\/call-to-action-on-home-delivery-of-alcohol-by-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to action on home delivery of alcohol by USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Counter Tools joins the American Public Health Association\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcoholactionnetwork.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alcohol Action Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in urging congressional action on home delivery of alcohol by the US Postal Service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By law, the US Postal Service is prohibited from shipping alcohol under<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1716\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. Legal Code 18 \u00a7 1716<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But a new bill in Congress, the United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3287\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">H.R. 3287<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/1663\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S. 1663<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), could change that.\u00a0 Enabling home delivery of alcohol by USPS would create new health risks and potential for underage drinking, and threaten existing alcohol safety measures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alcohol Action network has made it easy for you to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcoholactionnetwork.com\/take-action\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on this important issue. After entering your name and address, the template can be personalized with additional information that may be meaningful to your unique congressional legislators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcoholactionnetwork.com\/s\/USPS-and-Home-Delivery-Talking-Points-Updated-9622.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download this fact-sheet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more about issues related to home delivery and USPS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter Tools joins the American Public Health Association\u2019s Alcohol Action Network in urging congressional action on home delivery of alcohol by the US Postal Service.\u00a0 By law, the US Postal Service is prohibited from shipping alcohol under U.S. Legal Code 18 \u00a7 1716. But a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countertools.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}