Advice from USPS Postal Worker

So my mail carrier is affiliated with me in different ways other than just being my mail carrier. She told me that packs with handwritten labels are less scrutinized than packages with the standard typed printing labels that you get with your average dnm packs. Not super important, but I've always read on this sub that handwritten labels are sketchy.


Comments


[13 Points] Smerka_Bowl:

Handwritten sounds more sketchy...plently of small-time business, professional sellers online etc use a printer label....handwritten also is a big ospec issue for vendors.


[7 Points] DinoNeedsMe:

Handwritten labels are more of an opsec problem for different reasons, so printed labels will still be the go-to even if the person you spoke to is actually correct about them receiving more scrutiny somehow (which I kind of doubt tbh)


[6 Points] Theeconomist1:

Here's the way I look at it. The handwriting vs non-handwriting isn't worth getting all worked up over. I tend to believe the difference in risk, if there is one, is small as compared to other aspects of the process. The absolute only problem I have with handwriting has nothing to do with it being more suspicious. It's that some people have awful handwriting and if this is the case then that's a potential increase in risk. If machine can't read the hand writing it'll get looked at. If the handwriting is very neat and legible then I think the difference between printed labels and handwriting is so small to barely be noteworthy.

Not like the post office is going to say "oh shit, a handwritten address. Let's pull that aside for further inspection".


[4 Points] Ghostfeind:

Handwriting analysis is still a bitch.


[3 Points] BillyJack4real:

Since when is a mail carrier involved in vetting packages?


[3 Points] MitalikaSucks:

I once posted that since everybody prints the address, it would be less sketchy to handwrite. But yeah, if a vendor pretends to be a business it is better to print. If it is not a business letter - handwriting is definitely better


[2 Points] ShulginsCat:

Dude you're screwing your postlady?? Is that what's going on?


[2 Points] InconvenientIdeals:

What if...you're lying and its actually the opposite?! How are we to trust you or your possibly nonexistent friend?

Not saying I don't trust you and honest I kinda already thought that mostly but on principle ya know?


[2 Points] yalldontknowjack:

never received a legit pack handwrote.


[2 Points] SpiffyWhiff:

Handwritten labels are frequently used as part of the PC that LE needs to open a package. I've seen it in more than one case, I'll see if I can dig one up.

EDIT: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/postal-drug-bust?page=0

EDIT2: from a postal inspector: http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020150202C43/U.S.%20v.%20KENT

" If an Express Mail package is sent by an individual to another individual and contains a handwritten label, that is exceptional and raises a red flag."


[1 Points] druggieslut:

Customers always bitch about handwritten labels. Not gonna fucking happen


[1 Points] Chardlz:

Although I'm not a vendor, I reship a bunch of things using the same OPSEC as most vendors (mylar, vac seal if necessary etc) to my friends who dorm in more discreet packaging (in most dorms an envelope will be delivered directly but a package will have to be picked up at a central location). I handwrite everything using a return address of an apartment building or other address near the blue box I drop in with the return name sharing a last name with the recipient. I've probably sent close to a hundred shipments (mostly acid and mdma) without any issues. The OPSEC you use should be designed to fit into the story of where the things are coming from and going to. For a vendor, who ships to people all over the country (or world) with no relation to them it would be absurd to not make it look like a business or junk mailer type of shipment. Anything else would draw more suspicion on the pickup end I would think.


[-1 Points] whywouldyoudothat22:

I used to work at an office where we sent a ton of next-day legal size envelopes every day and we didn't have 1 label maker in the entire building. We just had a bunch of interns that would write out the address very quickly and get the letter out asap because everything was rushed. If you're sending something next day express and you have time to print out a nice label, I could see how that might be odd.


[-1 Points] Dillysfordays:

When SupremeSmoke was in business the pack i got was handwritten on a label. all SS orders came just fine priority