Plausible deniability when your own business's return address is used to ship orders?

I just had an interesting idea about this, say someone wanted to start a dark net operation (think DrXanax level) for the hell of it, and owned a relatively popular shop where they shipped out regular clearnet packages.

Could someone theoretically who owned this shop, use their own return address to send out packages? If the police catch the return address and start investigating them for drugs, could they say they had no idea and someone else was using their return address?

It might be so fucking stupid that it could actually work. You could walk into the post office everyday with 10 clearnet packages and 10 counterfeit xanax packages and ship them out without raising any suspicion. And the police would be chasing a lead that someone else is doing it.

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[10 Points] Theeconomist1:

The main issue is that it could put the spotlight on you when you otherwise would have been unknown to LE. The only narrow situation it helps is if you get a pack returned it will come back to you. But that's a very narrow situation. You can bet LE would do their due diligence so you better make sure you are fucken spotless. To me the risks don't outweigh the benefits.

I'm no expert in vendor opsec but I think I'd rather be "unknown" than have a spotlight on my business where the link could conceivably be uncovered. You potentially give LE a great starting point.


[1 Points] Mynanasnortsket:

The return address thing is only really a problem because vendors send them to civilian shops that have no idea whats in them, They get spooked don't want to go opening random packages so they call the police if your shipping with your own legit return address, Then yeah on the rare occasion a postal worker may need to open the package(Which does happen if they feel opening it could help with delivering or returning a in transit package) you may have plausible deniability if your exceptionally clean because the cops wont have any leads there bound to do some investigating about the business involved.

If that ever happend then walking into the post office with your packages (If there was a suspicion) would allow them to be intercepted and checked under reasonable suspicions which could end in a nasty bust for you and some customers.

Just me and my nans 2 cents.


[1 Points] yalldontknowjack:

You would have to be exceptionally clean. No drugs anywhere. It might be better to spread out the packs. Have several legit businesses mailing packages, and still send most of them through blue boxes. This would be to prevent profiling. Their is no plausible deniability when they have you on camera dropping of packs filled with drugs.


[1 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

Under no circumstances would this be safe to do by anyone less than a professional criminal with years of experience and a whonix workstation.


[1 Points] RosyPalm:

Missed the anniversary by just a little over a week

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-z-delorean-is-arrested-in-24-million-cocaine-deal

Mixing your illegal activities with your legitimate business is stupid. You're compounding your risk, the charges you'll face, and maximizing the damage LE will be able to do to you.


[1 Points] dnmarsehole:

Ladies and gentlemen, stop the presses.

This is genius.

From today forward there shall be no more DNM related busts.

If all vendors simply start using their real return addresses on all packs, everything will be fine. LE will never figure it out.

Holy shit, why didn't I think of this?

From this day forward you shall be known as DNMSAVIOR.

Thank you , we all owe you a great debt of gratitude.


[1 Points] procowtipper:

Didn't the catch DrX from purchasing the tracking in the store? Pretty sure they wouldn't have a hard time provNig you actually shipped the packs assuming they had tracking with them.