Grind them with a coffee grinder, cap them and put the capsules in an eccinacea bottle.
Ship via USPS, first class. Use a real name/return address, though it doesn't need to be yours.
The most important thing is to make sure its packaged well so there is no chance it could accidentally come open. Make sure nothing could happen to the address label by covering it with clear packing tape.
Make sure it has enough postage and don't overnight it or do anything else out of the ordinary.
Drug dogs do not smell for mushrooms but if you keep your shrooms near your weed they will smell the weed.
If you follow this advice + the advice below, the chance of getting away with it is 99.92%.
Make sure it fits as few of the drug package criteria as possible.
source.
The Mail, Shipping, and The Law
This will be an ongoing compilation of authority and opinion regarding the shipping of items throught the mail. This covers US Federal Law. I'll update if/when I get around for it. Hopefully those who need this information will do a search and find it.
What classes of mail require a warrant to open?
First Class, Express, and Priority (which is often considered a first class subset) are considered sealed, and require a warrant to open.
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It has long been held that first-class mail such as letters and sealed packages subject to letter postage - as distinguished from newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and other printed matter - is free from inspection by postal authorities, except in the manner provided by the Fourth Amendment
See: UNITED STATES v. VAN LEEUWEN, 397 U.S. 249 (1970)
http://supreme.justia.com/us/397/249/case.html
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Matter Closed Against Postal Inspection
Matter closed against postal inspection includes First-Class Mail (including Priority Mail) and Express Mail. The USPS may open mail other than First-Class Mail or Express Mail to determine whether the proper rate of postage is paid. Material wrapped or packaged so that it cannot be examined easily or examined without destruction or serious damage is closed against postal inspection and is charged the appropriate First-Class Mail or Express Mail rate.
SEE: Domestic Mail Manual Section 123.2.3 Link to DMM: http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/DMM300_landing.htm
Authority for DMM's provision:
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39 USC sec. 3623(d)
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The Postal Service shall maintain one or more classes of mail for the transmission of letters sealed against inspection. The rate for each such class shall be uniform throughout the United States, its territories, and possessions. One such class shall provide for the most expeditious handling and transportation afforded mail matter by the Postal Service. No letter of such a class of domestic origin shall be opened except under authority of a search warrant authorized by law, or by an officer or employee of the Postal Service for the sole purpose of determining an address at which the letter can be delivered, or pursuant to the authorization of the addressee.
39 USC sec. 3623(d)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode39/usc_sec_39_00003623----000-.html
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What is a suspicious package?
While this is probably impossible to define, as the government will likely use any charecteristic to justify its suspicioun regarding a package when pressed in court, I'll try and provide some sources regarding what is considered suspicious both inside and outside the USPS system (including private carriers).
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Based upon experience and drug-trafficking intelligence, the United States Postal Inspection Service has developed a drug package profile for packages deposited in the Express Mail and Priority Mail. Profile characteristics include: (1) heavy brown paper wrapping; (2)
heavily taped seams; (3) handwritten address label; (4) sent from one individual to another; (5) mailed from a zip code different from the address; and (6) a fictitious address. While it is uncertain whether any one of these criteria, standing alone, would support a finding of reasonable articulable suspicion, in various combinations these criteria might indeed support such a finding.
People v. Shapiro, No. 81920 (10/17/97)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=il&vol=81920&invol=1
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The package roused the officers' suspicions because it was
incorrectly addressed even though the sender and recipient had the same last name; the air bill was handwritten, marked "priority overnight," and contained no account number; and the package was sent from California.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/8th/993982P.pdf
USA v. Vasquez; No. 99-3982 (8th Cir.)
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When can officers (not private employees of a private shipper) detain a package
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[l]aw enforcement authorities must possess a reasonable suspicion based on articulable facts that a package contains contraband before they may detain the package for investigation," United States v. Johnson, 171 F.3d 601, 603 (8th Cir. 1999)
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