DEAR ABBY: Please print my letter, as we will be going on vacation soon.
Every time my husband and I travel to another country such as Mexico, Jamaica or other Caribbean islands, we're asked to bring back duty-free alcohol. The people who make these requests are not good friends -- they are usually my husband's co-workers.
The U.S. government allows each person to return home with two bottles of liquor duty-free. We would like to be able to buy the quota for ourselves and our family, but my husband does not know how to refuse his colleagues.
Please help with a polite answer for these people when they ask. -- NO NAME OR CITY, PLEASE
DEAR NO NAME: Foreign travel by Americans has become so common that it really is an imposition for the traveler to be asked to lug liquor and other gifts home from abroad.
Your husband should smile and say, "Sorry, there is a limit of two bottles -- and those have been promised." Other items are also limited, so the same response should work for almost any request.