My source just recently cancled its express shipping option 2-4 business days due to confiscation issues and will probably only ship via internation airmail. This takes 6-10 days.

Is 6-10 days travelling going to cause some damage to my cigars? Should I consider changing sources due to this? If its just a matter of waiting longer till they are smokable thats ok.

If anyone has any input or gets their cigars with this much travel time i'd love to hear you thoughts.

Thanks so much,

Tharty

I have never had a problem with smokes shipped up to 10 days. As long as the packaging is airtight, shrinkwrap etc, you should be fine. . .just allows them a little extra time to rest when received. . .

bunch of morons.

DavidC pretty much summed it all up quite nicely. I, for one, hope that answers the question.

All the vendors I have used in the past use regular mail. I have never had a problem with customs... I also have never had a problem with the packaging of the sticks...

How are the cigars when you get them now? If your guy ships them wet, then 2 weeks in a zip-lock won't hurt them. If they're already dry when you get them, this certainly isn't going to help...

Doesn't matter. Assuming you are going to lay them down for a while before they arrive even 2 weeks isn't going to hurt them.

Good vendors are sending cigars ALWAYS air sealed...
I use ziplock or vacuum bags, but wrap foil does it too.

they will be fine...

What would be nice is if people would try to contain themselves before making this type of post...try using someone you trust's email from their profile and asking this type of question privately. When someone entrusts another person with sensitive information, why does the the other person always have to forget that all of the info is sensitive? Morons is right.

Quality will not be affected by that journey as cigars are usually well packaged.

The only problem I can see is not possible to track post... and within the States depending where you are it can really take more than 10 days. So it is not possible to see if a parcel has been seized, lost or delivered ... I can allready imagine problems on the vendor and on the buyer sides.

Jean-David

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Originally posted by NoLa:
What would be nice is if people would try to contain themselves before making this type of post... Morons is right.

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someone asking about the quality of cigars in transit 10 days gives away all the secrets of the cuban cigar world? being just a tad anal? go back to yelling at kids to keep of your lawn.

Yeah, we should all just email the people we already know and ditch the forum completely. That would be fun. Great idea, guys.

Anal...OK. But the question was "does extended time in the mail hurt cigars badly? and yet we get all of this other information that we don't need. Info by the way that I personally do not like to see splattered all over the page. Why chisel away at my ability to get what I want the way I used to get it? I say again. Morons. damn right.

If this is the same Vendor I believe it is, I assure you he will do everything he can to keep the cigars in the best condition possible.

Let me put it another way and then I will drop it for my part.

"Hey guys, I just robbed a bank in Atlanta, and on my way out of the parking lot, the transmission in my getaway car started to make a sound like thumpeta thumpeta thumpeta. Any of you guys ever have this sound in your transmission, and should I be worried aout using this car again in my next robbery?"

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"Hey guys, I just robbed a bank in Atlanta, and on my way out of the parking lot, the transmission in my getaway car started to make a sound like thumpeta thumpeta thumpeta. Any of you guys ever have this sound in your transmission, and should I be worried aout using this car again in my next robbery?"

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Drop away, but your analogy is silly.

Sox