I went swimming in the ocean in Florida with my brother last Christmas.
We were both pretty buzzed. Didn't realize we were in an area supervised by life guards. It was getting close to sunset, but not quite there.
We saw a couple small-medium sized black-tipped sharks hunting for fish just past the breakers. We remarked on how cute they were and continued our conversation while treading water.
The life guards started blowing their whistles like crazy, calling everyone in. I was genuinely concerned that there was a massive rip current, or maybe a Portuguese man-o-war floating in. It was only after we got out of the water that we realized they shut the beach down over those sharks.
How close did we come to getting bit?
I'm sorry, but nobody has a definitive answer to your question.
In my humble opinion, the USPS isn't misdelivering packages just to get probable cause. Controlled delivery of illegal substances is a whole other ball of wax. And mushroom cultures that exist in a largely overlooked legal gray area are not the sort of thing which typically give that variety of law enforcement supervisor much of a hard-on.
People mail large amounts of actual drugs on a regular basis. Not our new age hippie bullshit, DRUGS. Sometimes the DEA and US postal inspectors give a shit, or get a tip and have a field day with it. But most of the time, people get away with it.
Misdelivered packages? That's anyone's guess. A lot is going to depend on local culture, law enforcement, etc. And I'm sure you don't want to tell us where you live (wouldn't matter too much anyway, as I doubt any of us are US postal inspectors).
The real question I have is, how on earth did you have so many misdelivered packages in such a short period of time? There's a weak link in there somewhere (and I'd bet my head stash that it's not some USPS conspiracy). Also, FYI, you can often call the local post office and just ask them to hold the package for pickup. As long as it hasn't been bounced back to the sender yet. And think about it: what's more above-board than trying to track down your package? What's sketchier than abandoning it?
But really, come on now. If you order something to your address that's "legal," or at least overlooked these days, and use it to commit a felony, the fact that you ordered that thing is a matter of record. And the fact that you're committing a felony with it is kind of a foregone conclusion. If having packages misdelivered freaks you out this much, then ordering in your name to the place where you're growing doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the first place, consistency-wise.
My personal opinion is that nobody is paying any attention to you at all, but opinions are like assholes. And mine, in this case, is almost entirely uninformed about the real particulars.
But really, the thing is that what we do carries risks, and nobody else can tell you what your actual risks are. Or how you should feel about them.
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Edited by B Traven (11/25/23 09:13 PM)
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Oh, got you. Sorry, I misread that part.
What information do you have about this misdelivered package, and how did you get it?
When you say "neighbor," what do you mean? Next door? Same neighborhood? Do they know you personally? And also, what sort of neighborhood?
So many details there that you probably don't want to get into, but are kind of crucial to getting a proper picture of the situation.
I personally wouldn't be opening a personal-looking package that I thought got misdelivered. I'd either be going on Next Door to try to let the recipient know I had it, or just writing "does not live at this address" or "misdelivered" and leaving it for my mail carrier.
And yeah, that's an excellent point. Opening a stranger's mail is not the sort of thing most people would brag about.
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