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Well yes. IF there was a spill. But under normal circumstances... they don't spill. The whole point of the box is to protect the contents from getting damaged. Most liquor boxes of sufficient strength to use for shipping are discards from liquor stores, who empty the contents out into their refrigerators for sale and then give away the now-empty boxes for people to use. Considering the whole point is to SELL the contents to consumers, the bottles/cans inside should never be getting opened anywhere close to the box in the first place.

I mean, yeah, if the box came from someone who drinks so much as to buy bottles of vodka by the case, then I might be worried about spills. But that's... really pretty rare.

Also, it's not illegal to ship alcoholic things via FedEx or UPS or other shipping companies. It's only illegal to ship them via USPS. And USPS won't let you ship stuff with exposed inaccurate labels ANYWAY and they will (or at least they're supposed to) insist that you wrap it in paper or cover the labels with a marker or with opaque tape. (You don't even have to conceal the fact that it's a liquor box. You just have to cover up the part that says what's inside the box.) And that part of the law has nothing to do with it being alcohol and everything to do with accurate information.

Using a liquor box isn't even a social comment about the sender being an alcoholic. My MOM uses liquor boxes and she's a veritable teetotaler.

So... don't slam on a free source of environmentally-responsible packaging just because it's related to booze. Would you rather that cardboard end up landfilled or inefficiently recycled?