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You can only ship packages from post offices now or by scheduling pickup. Too much darknet drugs I guess. You can drop them in a bin at the post office, but you still have to go in and get on camera.
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Surely most drugs could be sold in small enough envelopes that you don't need parcel postage. I know when I was using DNMs most packages were a simple large letter stamp stamp which covers 35.3cm x 25cm x 2.5cm and a maximum weight of 750g. So I doubt dark net drug orders would have been the trigger for this sort of change.

As long as Congress thinks drugs are shipped in giant parcels, it doesn't matter how drugs are actually shipped.

As long as increasing the friction of shipping through USPS raises the stock prices of delivery companies Congressmen hold stock in--

As a consumer of black market peptides (formerly gray, thanks RFK) there doesn’t seem much of an attempt to hide it nor does it appear that anyone is intercepting them. The only package I lost was due to the LA Railroad heists.

Bombs or anthrax are probably a bigger security concern than illegal drugs.

Most priority mail boxes can be dropped in a blue bin depending on how heavy they are.



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