If anyone from the UK s experiencing delays i point you to this post from plutopete
Royal mail have had to start checking internal as well as outgoing mail to comply with international regulation on transporting dangerous goods, it's not a crackdown on drugs :) Their dangerous goods department is in the north of england but if a parcel is flagged by a scanner it is shipped to Belfast to be opened and checked, apparently the Returned Mail centre is the only place they're allowed to open packages. They destroyed a few of my stash cans thinking they were aerosols, but they've promised to alert their staff now so it doesn't happen again. The most annoying thing is that they just destroy the goods without giving any means of appeal or compensation, just a letter saying they've destroyed your parcel and not to post any more dangerous goods.
http://silkroad5v7dywlc.onion/index.php?topic=29444.msg580834#msg580834
Having a little poke around in the shipping section of the forums reveals a higher number of people are having packages intercepted (or there could just be more people speaking up about it) and some have had their letters hole punched or cut and probably swabbed
i do not endorse silkroad in the slightest however the forums are most insightful
God damn it. Vendors have to be stepping up their stealth now unfortunately. Just legalize and regulate already UK, you're wasting my damn tax money. -_-