UK - how strict is the royal mail?

[tosser]

has anyone know what the system is to check letters/parcels for drugs sent to the uk?
has anyone got any stories, from the uk, of being sent some illegal substance and getting cought? what is the procedure of the arrest?

thankyou

[Evil GIR]

If caught, you have your door kicked in at 4 in the morning, they dragg your ass to the police station and they question you.

[Alfa]

That's about the clearest answer you could wish for. Well maybe not the answer you where hoping for.

[rocksmokinmachine]

They can and will open suspicious parcels

[old hippie 56]

And then you will get a letter from customs citing illegals substances.

[rocksmokinmachine]

I did hear about one guy who posted some weed and hash back from amsterdam a few years ago. He recieved a letter from HM Customs and Excise asking if he would like to go to the police station and collect his "9 grams of herbal cannabis and 3 grams of cannabis resin". Needless to say he didn't bother

[podge]

Originally Posted by rocksmokinmachine

I did hear about one guy who posted some weed and hash back from amsterdam a few years ago. He recieved a letter from HM Customs and Excise asking if he would like to go to the police station and collect his "9 grams of herbal cannabis and 3 grams of cannabis resin". Needless to say he didn't bother

Lol. Same kind of thing happens here - if a letter containing illicit substance's is found the recipient on the address get's a letter asking for them to come in and pick up their "package" - no mention of what it contains. I dont think many people take them up on that offer.

But from what swim has heard - lot's of people get away with posting certain drugs eg. small amounts of cannabis , LSD , RC's etc . Swim hasnt heard of anyone posting other subatance's really but swim is sure that it probably happening

Its not at all appealing getting caught though.

[Evil GIR]

Dont think for one moment that all your gona get is a letter, keep a clean house if your ordering stuff or having stuff mailed to you as they can and will kick you door in.

Just read this if ya dont beleive me :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Stor...492457,00.html

[rocksmokinmachine]

Yes, but they will have extreme difficulty securing a prosecution, and conviction is highly unlikely. The reason these people were prosecuted is because there was a trail of elecronic evidence leading the police to their door, there was no way they could wriggle out of it. Posting weed back from overseas is trickier for them and they are hardly going to go into thorough investigations over a few grams of weed, that is the point I was trying to make. People ordering drugs online are always running a risk. Oh, and yes SWIM has heard of many people posting things to the UK without any problems.

[Evil GIR]

Well with swims experience, his door was booted down for just ordering cacti chips, which isnt even a drug, they had no evidence against him except of what they found and still there having trouble charging him with anything.

I guess it could depend on alot of things, such as mood of the people involved, the amount sent, type of drug sent and how bored they are.

But i am just trying to let people know that having drugs sent to you in the post always carrys a risk.

[Jonny8888]

Ofcourse it does depend on what you get caught sending. If its a bit of weed they might not come down too harsh on you, its a few hundreds pills they slam your ass in jail.

Ofcouse you could take measures to make your package as inconspicous as possible, maybe buy a prepaid evelope of royal mail and print the adress onto it so it looks like its from a company.

[rocksmokinmachine]

Originally Posted by Evil GIR

But i am just trying to let people know that having drugs sent to you in the post always carrys a risk.

I agree, I'm just saying that ordering drugs on the internet is enough for them to be granted a search warrant from the local do-gooder magistrate. However they will not be able to get a conviction unless they have some hard evidence

[old hippie 56]

Here a couple of letters, one from the UK and the other from the US. By the way, they ain't swims.

Reputation Comments on this post:

The scanned seizure letters are very interesting. I'd appreciate it if you could post the 2nd page of the UK customs on...

[Twiglet]

Swim was in rotterdam and bought lots of lovely seeds (I know there legal) But did not want customs to see them otherwise they would have jumped to the conclusion that they were to grow! instead of for his fussy parrot.
anyway they turned up opened, with sticker saying 'this package has been opened by uk customs and excise checked and re-sealed'
swim knows other people to send all different stuff around, some just don't make it, funny cos when that happens the postman always seems very happy.
swim knows someone order research chemicals on-line and the police came straight round and said, why are you ordering class A drugs? told him not to do it again

[Joe Duffy]

Friends of SWIM have received purchased cannabis from Canada via post on several different occasions.

[Evil GIR]

I thinks it could depend on where you live too, Swim has ordered all kinds of things before in the past RC chems and such. Swim even had various packages opened that where mislabeled and they where sent through with no problems, even large amounts of cacti material has been looked at but passed through.

But at the time Swim was living with his parents in a pretty nice middle class area, the time of my bust Swim was living in a pretty bad area, with lots of crack raids and prostitutes hanging around.

If the area is pretty bad and there is a big crack and smack problem, then i am guessing its not the best area to order things too.

but hey Swim didnt think of this before, well until it was too late.

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Do not incriminate yourself! You have been here long enough to know better.

[Sippin40oz]

Friends of SWIM recieved 10 gram packages of coke through the post a couple of times with no problem. Rather him then me though always sounds a bit risky!

[FuBai]

It must be massivley hard to detect substances like LSD blotters via the mail. You could send hundreds of hits in a standard envelope. It's still not a risk that anyone would sensibly take, but I don't see how they could detect it, especialy if something was done to mask the smell to protect against sniffer dogs (Not sure if the dogs can detect small amounts of LSD?)

You can't be arrested for it (in the UK at least) but it may give reasonable grounds for a search warrant, so as others have said, a clean house is important. Moreover, once you attract attention it will be recorded in police files against future instances.

[Pondlife]

I think there is a big difference in risk between national and international postage. Anything coming into the country will potentially be examined by customs (HMRC); whereas there are no such checks AFAIK for mail within the UK.

The Royal Mail are having enough problems remaining competitive after their monopoly was ended last year. They are not going to spend large amounts of money doing checks that they don't need to. Also, there is a vast quantity of letters and parcels going through the system every day. In other words, if a national letter or parcel doesn't arouse suspicion at the post office or sorting office then it's probably OK.

[Sky Walker]

IMO, using the mail is the safest way to transport illegal drugs.