diff --git a/tools/rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 b/tools/rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3
index 9b35b39..2faf8d9 100755
--- a/tools/rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3
+++ b/tools/rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 #   1) wheel path to tar up
 set -e
 
+if [ "${CI:-false}" = "false" ]; then
+  rapids-echo-stderr "Packages from local builds cannot be uploaded to S3."
+  rapids-echo-stderr "Open a PR to have successful builds uploaded."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 # For legacy reasons, allow this script to be run without the pkg_type being the first arg
 pkg_name="$(rapids-package-name "wheel_python")"
 
@@ -14,10 +20,4 @@ if [ "${pkg_type}" = "cpp" ] || [ "${pkg_type}" = "python" ]; then
     pkg_name="$(rapids-package-name "wheel_${pkg_type}")"
 fi
 
-if [ "${CI:-false}" = "false" ]; then
-  rapids-echo-stderr "Packages from local builds cannot be uploaded to S3."
-  rapids-echo-stderr "Open a PR to have successful builds uploaded."
-  exit 0
-fi
-
 rapids-upload-to-s3 "${pkg_name}" "$@"