John Fitzpatrick Quotes on Alcohol (2 Quotes)

So what that translates to is that you have a very rushed and harried FedEx or delivery person, who is neither trained nor licensed to deliver alcohol, whose job it is to move as many boxes in the shortest amount of time. This is not conducive to slowing down, stopping to check an ID and, if no one is home, as many parents aren't during the day, the product is handed to anybody at the door who may or may not sign for it and, in many cases, the alcohol is just left for anybody to retrieve. That is not how society is set up for alcohol to be sold.

Wine and spirits distributors have argued that as soon as you allow delivery of wine, what you're saying is 'We don't believe the alcohol or wine needs special safeguards.' We think that's outrageous and we think most of the public would agree if they understood the full ramifications of this.