Is your postman delivering drugs? - Highly accurate BBC article describing the plight of postal workers forced to become drug dealers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38223838/is-your-postman-delivering-drugs

Poor Guys


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[33 Points] None:

My gf heard this in the car and told me about it.

"Patrick" told us that it's illegal for him to open suspect parcels and there's "nothing he can do about it".

"You tell the managers and all they say is you need to deliver it."

He added: "If it's got a stamp on it, you post it. We don't have drug dogs to smell every parcel. We don't have the resources to X-ray every parcel. We just have to deliver it and take the risk. I've spent 14 years as a postman in uniform and I have never seen a drug dog Postal worker

"Our job is to deliver it safely to the customer."

God bless the Queen


[9 Points] wombat2combat:

archive link because it might not be the best idea to give them traffic originating from this sub [they might get the idea of interviewing vendors] https://web.archive.org/web/20170105132125/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38223838/is-your-postman-delivering-drugs

edit: the image of the weed in the letter looks like the stealth of some vendors nowadays

The Home Office says it is spending £1.9m trying to "increase understanding" in how organised crime networks "adapt and diversify" using technology.

spending that much just to lurk on this sub is a bit much, but okay.

also the picture with the caption 'Newsbeat reporter Jim Connolly logs onto the dark web with Chris Monteiro, an independent cyber-security expert' is fake because they do not wear ski masks or gloves, always these noobs not taking care of their opsec :)

Me and my friend found it incredibly funny how she [postal worker] gave us the post - and had no idea. She handed it over and said 'thank you very much' and I said thank you very much.

wow what a madlad, accepting a package and even saying 'thank you' to her. always these young-lings living on the edge

What "Steve" did was illegal and could have resulted in a jail term for possession of drugs with intent to supply.

then better talk to journalists instead of keeping your mouth shut.


[5 Points] None:

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[4 Points] postie187:

Royal Mail employee and Dark net user here. I've worked for royal mail now for 15 years in a London sorting/delivery office. In my sorting office everyone knows I'm a weed smoker so there are a number of times other postmen in the past that have smelt weed packages when getting their delivery ready and they have given them to me and I take it and smoke it. These are not usually DN packages though they are usually packages from Amsterdam that I guess people are on their last day of their trip and have a load of weed left and post it back using terrible stealth. Now I've been ordering off the DN for a number of years I've become quite good at spotting a DN package. This year I've intercepted 4 packages and been right all 4 times, 3 times weed that I kept 1 time a load of xanax that I have no interest in so I resealed it and put it back in the system. One big giveaway of a DN package is a fake return address because if I suspect it is a DN package and it has a return address on it I will google the address and if it is a fake address then that package will be coming home with me. Other times you have holes punched in the envelope and you can see the mylar bag through it so vendors should always use some type of visual barrier. Also once I take a package and there is weed in it I then make a mental not of the name and address and check it more often. I never do any of this on a delivery I'm doing (too close to home). I know what I'm doing is wrong and I've got no excuse but it's kind of a guessing game that I enjoy now. If I have ever taken your weed I'm sorry. And I hope by revealing some of the giveaways it be harder for me now.


[3 Points] lovegettinghigh:

How stupid. Like the post office is gonna screen or pay for that kind of shit. I guess the headline gets clicks though.


[3 Points] tweakingpelicant:

  1. Gets postal job
  2. Organizes drug ring
  3. Traffics via postal job
  4. ???
  5. 10/10 deniability
  6. Profit??


[3 Points] DextroShade:

Cry me a fucking river bitch! No one is going to arrest the mailman for doing his job. Dude should shut the fuck up and mind his own goddamn business!


[1 Points] Jihonob:

"Good citizens" ruining it for all of us


[1 Points] xanax_xombie:

What I gathered from reading all that, is it sucks to try to be a drug addict in New Zealand.

I lol'd at the exchange of thank you's part, when I tip my mailmen for the holidays and he leaves me a thank you card, I want to leave him one back as well :)


[1 Points] toss-me-away-once:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1114F/production/_92876996_envelope_weed_976.jpg

The vendor going by "WHITE_ENVELOPE_WEED" needs to review OPSEC.


[1 Points] Pakabidu:

So, BBC investigation + IPbill + gov attention, UK is about to have some fun times...


[1 Points] GetjobyoufukinSLOB:

what a faggy hipster looking fucker. bbc will hire anyone these days, eh?