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I have now seen the same warning given by the OP via another source. There seems to be an emphasis on "special delivery" post. In the UK Special Delivery is entirely different to the type of regular post. Even post that is signed for on delivery is different to Special Delivery because SD is tracked every step of the way, insured to a far higher limit and guaranteed to arrive by either 9am or 1pm the next day. SD goes through a different channels since it is higher priority. ie. It isn't sorted with the rest of the mail. Therefore, it would be much easier for LE to have a look at those packages.
I still think anything going through the main stream of mail is in such vast quantities that the police do not have the resources to check it. But special delivery is a very small fraction of the post sent (I'd guess less than 0.5%) and of that half will probably be legal documents - i.e. it is clearly going to/from a law firm, is made of paper etc. Therefore special delivery wouldn't be a huge effort to take a look at.
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I'm told this has been checked out and it's no hoax also
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im not sure how mail or small parcels are loaded but given uk in general its main hub for most europe,second being netherlands and quantities would be in tonage amounts for all deliveries,id say if you pulled entire force to check they still would have hard time, since in these cases as said it clear they look for organized targets who do stealth or big hauls.That said if they pull enough samples of ordinary parcels to notice something going on then no one knows what way it goes, none the less at least having idea that these things go on ,is way better then not knowing at all,since usually you hear stories come many months later for public.
so yeah nothing is for certain,but taking smaller amounts and maybe skipping for a while in the region is no harm.
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I'm sure it is best to be careful for a while.
FOF tells me that in the UK Special Deliveries don't go in with the regular mail. That's because they are prioritised as next day delivery, and they are also more carefully accounted for and tracked through the system. Since they are a small percentage of the total mail, and already separated out, I believe this may be what police are focused on. Darknet sales are very often posted SD so both sides can see it is tracking through the system.
This is an educated guess based on a bit of intel, so I could be wrong. But if you think about it in terms of processes, the logistics of doing the scans, and police priorities (lots of pressure on the darknet at the moment), then this would make sense.
I don't know anything about international post and whether it is affected.
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The way i see it is that its the dark net thats sparked a hell of a lot more interest in what is passing through postal systems, in the US I'm particularly thinking of that fent which is killing thousands, its arrived in other countries but is usually used for cutting street drugs, in the US its appearing in pain killers, don't know the numbers that have died from taking pks with fent in them,I heard on the radio late the other night that 50 thousand died last year due to fent, didn't say if it was from pks or street drugs, maybe a combination of both maybe ?
I keep seeing articles in the MSM online or tv documentaries about how the dark net is using the post to deliver all kinds of stuff, this will cause people not using the DN to have mail seized, I don't wish to get involved with the DN really, LE seems to be coming down on DN markets so postal inspections will go up affecting others who have no links to the dark net.
I don't have anything sent by special delivery, even legit legal items its rare to get something sent by special next day delivery, it costs a lot more so if I buy something online its usually 2nd class delivery, the dark net getting bigger is going to cause more problems for everybody, won't be long before they bring in unemployed people to sift through mail to get their social security, that or prisoners or people doing community service rather than going to prison doing all the sifting, saying that the unemployed having to do full time work to get social security payments are not going to be conscientious workers and wouldn't probably care and just turn a blind eye to half the mail passing through their hands, getting grim out there, the so called opioid crisis doesn't help.
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Goodness me, thanks for your advice hoping all of our UK counterparts are safe and well. <3
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Just change the url back to http to use. k?
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I've had letters every day so maybe your issue is local. Perhaps you could test by sending yourself a letter?
