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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: XTC_EXPRESS on January 21, 2013, 09:56 pm
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Might be good knowledge for some of you:
http://documentarylovers.net/locked-up-abroad-party-girl/
by the way these shows are great, im hooked, my favorite is "hasidic king of coke" great episode damn.
I've always wondered why 90 % of these people busted are walking through airports with it, why not just fucking mail it?
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Yer Agreed great program and a good deterrent to mules, there missing out on SR...
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The world's drug smuggling game is changing rapidly! It's curious and scary to think of if/when/how authorities will crack down on the growing use of mail to purchase drugs.
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The world's drug smuggling game is changing rapidly! It's curious and scary to think of if/when/how authorities will crack down on the growing use of mail to purchase drugs.
Don't see how they could - too much mail going back and forth and too many controls would stifle genuine business mail, which nobody is going to put up with. A bit like the internet - they like to make it look like they're doing stuff, but it's a drop in the pond since there's just so much going back-and-forth. Could you imagine the amount of human time it would take just to review all the emails that were flagged with keywords like 'crack' or 'green' or any other common word that's also drug slang?! By the time it's been done a million other emails have been sent...
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intresting show thanks ! always wondered about them doing one like this
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Man, that show gives me the heebie jeebies. I was actually just about to order from you, Mr. XTCEXPRESS, when I started having paranoid thoughts (I'm in the USA) about intercepted mail and swat teams in the middle of the night. Customs is just one more hurdle I'm not sure I feel comfortable with yet. I haven't watched the video yet, but surely it won't help assuage my concerns...
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The world's drug smuggling game is changing rapidly! It's curious and scary to think of if/when/how authorities will crack down on the growing use of mail to purchase drugs.
Don't see how they could - too much mail going back and forth and too many controls would stifle genuine business mail, which nobody is going to put up with. A bit like the internet - they like to make it look like they're doing stuff, but it's a drop in the pond since there's just so much going back-and-forth. Could you imagine the amount of human time it would take just to review all the emails that were flagged with keywords like 'crack' or 'green' or any other common word that's also drug slang?! By the time it's been done a million other emails have been sent...
This exactly! There is something like 60 million packages going in and out of the uk, alone, every single day.
Lets say 5000 have drugs in them, it's a miniscule amount compared to the total. There isn't really much they can do.
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Sad to see people's lives ruined by drugs, and they haven't even taken them.
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This exactly! There is something like 60 million packages going in and out of the uk, alone, every single day.
Lets say 5000 have drugs in them, it's a miniscule amount compared to the total. There isn't really much they can do.
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I hope you are right and some geek doesn't invent a machine that can scan 10,000 packages/second for naughty things.
that would be a bummer.
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The world's drug smuggling game is changing rapidly! It's curious and scary to think of if/when/how authorities will crack down on the growing use of mail to purchase drugs.
(Basically from a previous post I made)
SR didn't invent shipping illicit substances through the mail... According to US postal inspectors: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/pubs/AnnualReportArchives.html
For 2011, postal inspectors arrested 1,327 people... 1,102 convictions.
For 2010 (SR came into existence in 2011), postal inspectors arrested 1,322. (So just about the same amount)
For 2001.... 1,662 people were arrested for mailing drugs
Imho I really don't think the smuggling game is changing much at all... if it were, the CIA would be pissed it's being cut out of the loop. :) I don't think we can compete with C130's, Ocean containers, etc... we're not even a drop in the bucket compared to means like those. And if it was... all coke vendors here would be from South America, heroin vendors would all be from SE Asia etc... but that's not what we have going on.
I know shipping illicit substances in the mail may seem new to those that found SR, but It's not... I myself was having stuff sent to me long before SR ever came around. The way we network here though, well... that's a different story.
And some other spit-balled numbers...
~313 Million people in the US back in 2011.
Lets say 10% of them were illicit drug users (I think this number is higher)... that makes 31.3 Million drug users.
Now lets say 1% of all those druggies score by mail... that's 313,000 people
As per the the US postal inspectors; 1,327 arrests were made in 2011.... this equates to 0.42% of postal scoring drug users getting arrested. (0.35% convicted)
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60 million packages in UK? Are you serious. So every single person in UK, including kids and old grannies, gets one parcel once a day?:)
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Hell yeah!
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I'd be curious to know the total volume of mail vs packages that are xrayed or scanned.
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You would think with all that mail coming in and out a Pneumatic Tube system would make sense....also mean international contraban reaching its destination within hours.
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How about just decriminalizing a lot of the substances and get focused on some more important law enforcement?
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I don't think logic really plays a part, drugs are the perfect distraction of the public eye from more serious issues at hand such as new-world imperialism.
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Too bad I can't get my drugs via teleportation. That will be the day
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I don't think logic really plays a part, drugs are the perfect distraction of the public eye from more serious issues at hand such as new-world imperialism.
And, there it is. They would rather make issues out of garbage, then let you get an idea about the rights they're stealing right in front of you.
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The war on drugs is also a way of funding the military industrial complex