This package contains ALCOHOL

We got a box of wine via FedEx Ground yesterday. Something about FedEx's ginormous "This package contains ALCOHOL" label always amuses me -- maybe it's the "Do not deliver to an intoxicated person" admonition, which always brings a mental picture of a shaggy-looking guy in a bathrobe and flip-flops, nursing his last bottle with shaking hands as he stares out the front window waiting for the box of wine that he ordered three weeks before.

Maybe it's the fact that UPS just adds an additional "ADULT SIGNATURE REQUIRED" line, printed in micro-type, to their normal shipping label.

So why does FedEx insist on the giant label? Is it because they're a bunch of puritans, or because of that one driver who dropped off that case of 1921 d'Yquem on the front step of a house full of teenagers having a drunken pool party?

Posted by Kevin at May 12, 2006 09:52 AM