not postal savy...but i did spend 2 years with airborne and i was there through the changes after 911, although i am no longer there..moved on to greener pastures...anyhow, most items come in from overses via ship or plane, if by plane, the are in the same containers as i repoted above, and they do not check all packages in customs as you would be made to believe..there are lists in certain zones , for say they look for items marked with certain postage markings, stamps etc...and pull a few to check...this can be done in the shipping location, or when it arrives to the destination ports...there are only certain ports that imports com into, it is not like there is a port for imports in every state that touches water.....there are a lot though...if the packages come via water, which generally never happens, they are in containers, the big steel things you see on the rail cars etc...those are trandomly inspected...there are thousands of them that come into port, and they randomly check those...the cahnce of getting seized via water is slim to none...but on the air arrivals, it is much easier to get popped...technically the FAA has everything regulated to be scanned at least when it comes into the US....this is where the customs agents come in...generally at the ports of entry, there are agents and there are customs employees, and i will not call them agents, they are the guys that scan and xray everything, and their are the customs agents which watch the xray and scanners to check items...they do not have the time to check addressing etc like on the shipping location, but they believe it or not, do have an eye to grab what comes in if they feel the need...some will not bother with tabs, but some will...it is up to ther screener, so there is where you chances lie...but, if they see an amp, they will generally grab it...and at least open it...if they know what it is, they hold it...if not, they will seal it and send it to you...now, for the guys that ship regularly from a certain area, lets say hypothetically from europe, everything that comes over to the US goes through one point of access...this is where they can have a list of shipping points to the US to watch for certain shipping addresses or cities or countries of origin, and the customs agents get an updated list very often of what to look for from who...this is where a source is being monitored coming into the US and that is why so many people get seized, and then you see like 5 bros stating they got seizure letters, aparently they use the same source aye...thus the reason a good source will have a seizure policy with his bros as well as spectacular packaging...but it is a bit left to chance also, figure you package has the opportunity to be popped 2 times, once at the shipping port and once at the delivery port.....and they dont have to remember a name of a drug, they have a list and most stations have a computer, and it is easy to look up a drug name on a list or on a computer data base....and as far as xraying goes, if packaged correctly, the xray will show nothing but a black item or grayed out pics...as far as the overseas pharmacy goes, if they are blatent enough to ship with contents on the package for god and the world to see, dont think they are not being watched. It is always better to be careful then to be sorry...and US law says you can have a 3 moth supply of what? Not a controlled substance! Also, that is why most sources would,do can or should ship tabs out of the box or packaging....it is hard for anyone to determine russian dbolo from a potassium tab....
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