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These Guys Want To Bring Booze To You No Matter What Time It Is

Melbourne Locals Start Petition For Late Night Liquor Service

Melbourne locals Christopher Dingas and Connor Lappin have launched a petition for a late night liquor delivery service they call The Late Night Bootleggers.

As the standard bottle shops in the city close at 11pm, the two friends and business partners believe that a late night delivery service would benefit those in the community and it would operate until 8am. 

The petition has been put in place to not only gain a liquor license, but to show local authorities that the public want the home service. 

Dingas and Lappin said: "We hope that this can be a significant force in persuading the Liquor Commission to grant us the privilege to service Melbourne in a way that we all have only dreamed of."

Although Melbourne already has 24 hour bottle shops in the inner city area, the boys maintain that a home delivery service is a much more efficient way to operate and it is also safer for the customer. 

And while, if the petition succeeds, the delivery service would launch in Melbourne, the co-founders hope to expand the business throughout the country.

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However with tougher drinking laws in states outside of Victoria, there might be a long road ahead for expansion plans. In NSW, home delivery services such as  Jimmy Brings can only operate until 10pm.

 

If you'd like to sign the petition, you can do so here.