izzy66
Bluelighter
i haven't read every post on this thread but fwiw it appears most of the aus busts involve large and imported packages. i would think the average user on the road would be looking for personal amounts. and what someone posted about the average user on the road being middle age women who don't like people, you may be very much on target. i would think many customers are folks who are doing the family and career thing and have either lost touch with old "friends" or just want to keep their extracurricular fun very, very private.
i have no personal knowledge using the road but i wouldn't have a second thought about ordering a small personal amount from someone w/in the same country, us to us, aus to aus, w/e. i would have more concern about being sent nothing at all or a bag of soap or oregano or baking soda. i've had p.o.boxes for decades, am always getting some kind of doodad from ebay or amazon, like earrings or a bracelet, i.e. small packages, and if i ordered from some one in the u.s. i wouldn't think twice about mr. post office man thinking anything was out of the ordinary. i'm sure sellers use stealthy methods to keep things less than immediately obvious esp since usps is always crunching the corners of boxes. and the sellers are probably way more interesting to leo than someone getting a gm for the weekend.
lovely things have been going through the mail for years. one xmas eve over 30 years, after getting talked out of most of my paycheck about ten days earlier, a knock came at the door. and there was mr. postman w/ a special delivery xmas card. inside were two sheets of little dragons for fun and enlightenment.
the whole idea behind sr isn't novel or new and i seriously doubt, even if the sr site disappears, that obtaining various interesting items via the internet is going to ever stop. the biggest problem i suspect could be happening now is that media attention has attracted significant numbers of 15 year olds who lack common sense and discretion. but those dummies won't cause sr or sites like it to shut down on any long term basis.
once out of the bottle, it's awfully hard to stuff the genie back in.
-izzy
i have no personal knowledge using the road but i wouldn't have a second thought about ordering a small personal amount from someone w/in the same country, us to us, aus to aus, w/e. i would have more concern about being sent nothing at all or a bag of soap or oregano or baking soda. i've had p.o.boxes for decades, am always getting some kind of doodad from ebay or amazon, like earrings or a bracelet, i.e. small packages, and if i ordered from some one in the u.s. i wouldn't think twice about mr. post office man thinking anything was out of the ordinary. i'm sure sellers use stealthy methods to keep things less than immediately obvious esp since usps is always crunching the corners of boxes. and the sellers are probably way more interesting to leo than someone getting a gm for the weekend.
lovely things have been going through the mail for years. one xmas eve over 30 years, after getting talked out of most of my paycheck about ten days earlier, a knock came at the door. and there was mr. postman w/ a special delivery xmas card. inside were two sheets of little dragons for fun and enlightenment.
the whole idea behind sr isn't novel or new and i seriously doubt, even if the sr site disappears, that obtaining various interesting items via the internet is going to ever stop. the biggest problem i suspect could be happening now is that media attention has attracted significant numbers of 15 year olds who lack common sense and discretion. but those dummies won't cause sr or sites like it to shut down on any long term basis.
once out of the bottle, it's awfully hard to stuff the genie back in.
-izzy
