THE LIQUID MAIL ORDER BUSINESS AND THE PROHIBITION STATES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 22

THE LIQUID MAIL ORDER BUSINESS AND THE PROHIBITION STATES.

Georgia, which became a prohibition State last year, and where the anti-liquor laws are executed rigidly, has become the best market for the whisky by mail firms. What rushing business they are doing, mostly from Chattanooga, Tenn., can be seen from the following statement of the manager of a Chattanooga whisky firm: — “ Chattanooga, Tenn., is doing sueh a rushing mail order business into Georgia that the post office there had to petition Washington for additional clerks to attend to the mail orders, and arrangements had to be made to get enough money in the city to pay the post office orders sent in from Georgit. The mail order business of one company averages from 5000dol. to 7000dol. out of Georgia alone.

“ The Southern Express Company has established a branch office on the main steet in Atlanta for the sole purpose of handling the whisky shipments, and it’s a sight to see the consignees calling for their packages. None of them are less than a quart, and most of them are four quarts for the distillers prepay the express when an order is for a gallon. No package can be shipped c.0.d.”