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Tron
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FedEx or UPS?
#1963624 - 09/29/03 06:03 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Lets say, hypothetically, i wanted to send someone a quarter pound of portobello mushrooms in the mail, across the states, and these portobello mushrooms might be mistaken for something illegeal. Now, im not about to break the law, but i dont want anyone fucking with/smelling/ or xraying my package of gourmet mushrooms.
Now this may sound like risky buisness, im sure it is, but thats not going to stop me...
Im here to ask my like-minded peers about there experiences in using the mail to send large quantities of portobello mushrooms,
-what precautions you used -any bad experiences and how to avoid them -what third party service you used -how you packaged your exports -any inside knowledge of the mail scanning system
any wisdom would be greatly appriciated, and dont tell me im stupid, its risky but completely possible this is hypothetical
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Tron]
#1963632 - 09/29/03 06:10 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's stupid and risky.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Tron]
#1963731 - 09/29/03 06:43 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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hypothetically, its not worth it.
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Seuss
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I know for fact that they have busted people for sending certain hemp plant parts via fedex. I would assume ups is similiar. I hate to be a copy-cat, but LDS said it best:
> It's stupid and risky.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Seuss]
#1964306 - 09/29/03 10:04 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Heh. I can tell you right now, its not risky in the LEAST. I work for UPS, at one of the busiest hubs in the country. I *personally* handle over 5000 boxes every day. There isnt an X-ray machine in the whole company, I 100% guarantee it.
Nobody cares what you ship. We get everything from live animals, to plants, to cars. We will ship ANYTHING. If anyone wants to give any REASONS it might be risky, I'll be glad to discount them. I would ship anything UPS in a second. Its probably 10X times safer than driving it across the country yourself. How are they going to find out? You think they're going through your packages? Its a private company. That would be ILLEGAL.
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Tron
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Thanks Madtowntripper, I know people at UPS and they feel the same way...
For the rest of you... I know its risky and stupid, i said that, its a federal offense. duh.
Neither Fedex or UPS scan packages with exrays or use dogs. They ship and recieve hundreds of thousands of packages a day. Residential to residential shipments arent suspect for a moment.
I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestion about how i could conduct myself safetly, like for instance
how might i prevent any whiff of smell escaping? because that seems like the only give away, and with fungus its minimal compared to marijuana...
regardless of the package being found, the only way you can be charged is if your name is on the package or if you sign for it, so my suggestion to anyone trying to ship something illeagal is to sign a fake name to the UPS man and then bounce out your backdoor before you get rolled up on... or sit around whatever
this is all hypothetical and whatnot
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Tron]
#1964986 - 09/30/03 02:06 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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As far as I know, and I believe there was a post on this sometime ago, no drug dogs are trained to smell mushrooms. There are far too many species of mushrooms for dogs to be able to pinpoint the hallucinogenic variety, and I don't think mushrooms are that huge a problem either (although if you read that microgram I think shrooms are gonna be moving up in priority). Now sending marijuana would be a completely different ballgame....I know people who have done it, and gotten away with it, but it's a lot more risky. I think sending mushrooms, acid, or pills would be basically undetectable....I'd use ups personally, I use them for any package I send just cause I have found their service to be the quickest and most reliable.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Tron]
#1971551 - 10/02/03 12:16 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Funny a UPS worker posted here. I work for FedEx Ground and I can tell you first hand - all we care about is getting your package off the belt without hurting our back. If you package your item PROPERLY so that it will not break open when thrown or kicked (the UPS guys do it to, so don't try to tell me different) then you have nothing to worry about. If they're ground up, even less to worry about; personally I'd take this extra step. Just package it safely against moisture and make sure it can take a reasonable beating.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: theseeker]
#1971647 - 10/02/03 01:06 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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heres what you do, take the portabellos and put them in a ziploc bag, squeese out the extra air and seal it, now duct tape the entire top, so that no air can get in. now take another bag and put about 4-6 dryer sheets in it and put the mushroom bag in it, squeeze the air out and seal with tape. now you should have a bag of dryer sheets with a ag of shrooms in it. both taped shut with duct tape. now get some coffee beans and grind them up, they have to be fresh ground, and put them in a third bag, place the doubble bag inside, squeeze the air out and tape shit. you will now have 3 layers of protection which won't bust. then spray the box youll be shippnig with with some nasty ass cologne and ship it off. also if you realy want to be snezky, from what i remember x-rays cant see through wood, so you could put it in a wood box, or inbetween some decently thick boards, before shipping if you were woried about the x ray thing.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: ZippoZ]
#1972044 - 10/02/03 06:55 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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> I work for FedEx Ground and I can tell you first hand We had a story in the local paper here a month or two ago where they busted a FedEx driver for smuggling cannabis. Somebody elsewhere in the world would FedEx a brick to a phony address on his route, which he would then deliver to whoever sells it. They discovered the package somewhere before it got to him and called the police. The DEA replaced the real cannabis with something fake and a tracking device and waited to see where it ended up. When it ended up in the trunk of the deliver guy, they busted him. I don't know if our local paper is large enough to be online or not... I will try to find a url to the story and post it. Edit: http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=2042716
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Officers from the High Intensity Drug Task Force and U.S. Customs were notified Wednesday by FedEx in San Juan that a package containing approximately 14 pounds of suspected marijuana had been intercepted, according to police.
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Edited by Seuss (10/02/03 07:01 AM)
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: theseeker]
#1972340 - 10/02/03 09:47 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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if you package your item PROPERLY so that it will not break open when thrown or kicked (the UPS guys do it to, so don't try to tell me different)
Hell yeah we do! And if you put a fragile sticker on it, your just ASKING to have it kicked. But yeah, its getting to be a wet time of year, so TAPE your box. As long as it doesnt bust open, I dont care whats inside...Although, be forewarned, if 10 keys of coke fall out, I'm quitting on the spot, and I hope you insured your package.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Seuss
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> Although, be forewarned, if 10 keys of coke fall out, I'm quitting on the spot, and I hope you insured your package.
*laugh*
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Seuss]
#1972356 - 10/02/03 09:54 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: ]
#1972385 - 10/02/03 10:02 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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You just hate it 'cause *I* work there...
Hater.
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Hell yeah we do! And if you put a fragile sticker on it, your just ASKING to have it kicked. But yeah, its getting to be a wet time of year, so TAPE your box. As long as it doesnt bust open, I dont care whats inside...Although, be forewarned, if 10 keys of coke fall out, I'm quitting on the spot, and I hope you insured your package.
Yeah man, we don't take instructions from goddamn packages! A little "Please handle with care" goes a long way, it acknowledges that a human being is handling the package so maybe I'll be nice if it looks like someone is thinking.
Oh, and for those writing in cursive, I'm going to throw it as hard as I can into the back of the truck until I have time to figure out what the address says. High probability of the same for people who use lowercase or obscure abbreviations.
There's a way to have your package not get on the wrong truck, get left at the end of the belt, or smashed by a 50 lb. box of bromide. Get a printed label in all caps, so the package handler can read it as they're wiping the sweat from their eyes. If you're really cool, circle the zip code in colored crayon, like green or something not too distracting. The zip code is how we know what truck it goes on. Don't worry about the Zip+4, that's strictly a USPS thing. Oh if you've taken the extra minute to do all this, you're going to be everyone that touches your package's (get your mind out of the gutter) favorite person in the world, which goes a long way to safe package handling.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: Tron]
#1972820 - 10/02/03 12:58 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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With FedEX and UPS, you pretty much have 0 mail rights. They could open any packages they please with no reason.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: TinMan]
#1973106 - 10/02/03 02:26 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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A friend of mine who works for UPS said they ship ANYTHING. He recalled someone shipping a bear hyde that wasn't even taxadermized, said it reeked of holy hell when it busted open. He also recalled packages smelling strongly of gasoline and they would keep them going to their destination. I took from that, they dont care what the hell you shipping.
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Re: FedEx or UPS? [Re: TinMan]
#1973221 - 10/02/03 03:03 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've worked here a long time, seen 100's of thousands of packages, and have never seen anyone say "Open that and see whats in there." I guarantee if I did I'd have the police called...Dont spread misinformation.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Seuss
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> With FedEX and UPS, you pretty much have 0 mail rights. They could open any packages they please with no reason.
> Dont spread misinformation
It isn't misinformation. What he is saying is that in the US only US Postal Mail is protected under the law as Postal Mail. Anything shipped by any other service is not Postal Mail and is not protected under the law the way postal mail is. It is illegal for the US Postal mail carrier to open a package under US law. It is not illegal for a UPS/FedEx carrier to open a package under US law. That isn't to say a UPS/FedEx carrier wouldn't be fired on the spot, but it isn't illegal the way it is with postal mail.
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