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Vitalux
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If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient?
#23456191 - 07/19/16 01:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Kind of wondering about this.
SWIM sent their friend in the USA a couple of marijuana cigarettes inside a birthday card envelope.
Friend in the USA said they did not receive said card in the mail.
Curious, if the letter was seized by U.S customs, would they have not sent a letter to the recipient notifying them of such seizure?
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Vitalux]
#23458166 - 07/20/16 12:27 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's a pretty silly thing to send someone through customs via the risk of it being exposed.
Usually you get a love letter, but you should have a tracking number. What does tracking say?
Customs usually takes anywhere from 7-15 days when I order things.
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Vitalux]
#23458281 - 07/20/16 01:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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They do send a love letter if they intercept it but it may take some time. He can ignore it. But that doesn't mean they wont put him on some watchlist.
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Vitalux
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Shroomism]
#23459557 - 07/20/16 12:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you so much for the information.
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Vitalux]
#23475765 - 07/25/16 02:51 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't even live in USA and I got a love letter from USA Customs once. Apparently my package had to go through there to get to me and they caught it.
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#23480205 - 07/26/16 09:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Canada post is really slow going to the USA, had it take up to a month sometimes, and that was for completely legit stuff.
The clue it got seized if it was tracked is that the tracking will stop at a big sorting center. A week or two later you will get a letter indicating that they seized contraband addressed to you and notifying you that future attempts to import contraband could result in criminal charges.
I can tell you they aren't going to bother charging you over a couple MJ cigs. In the unlikely case you get questioned act surprized and deny, deny deny.
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Vitalux
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Anonymous #2]
#23482841 - 07/27/16 04:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you so much I actually really appreciate the feedback.
SWIM ended up getting the letter in the end, and it took a long time to worm it's way though the postal system.
It is of great value to know that if a letter is intercepted, that some letter is eventually forthcoming. That is a good system.
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Re: If USA Customs seizes a letter do they send notification to the recipient? [Re: Vitalux]
#23494451 - 07/31/16 03:05 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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haha.. good system so long as SWIM is in a foreign country and won't have the DEA at the door instead of a letter.  However, the intended recipient of said letter might want to watch out. They'll be flagging that address for a while.
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