Guess it’s really up to the mail carriers discretion. I had a pack show up from Intl that was wet from like 4 amps breaking and they still delivered it.
How would it be ridiculous? Dude shows up with all of his ducks in a row. All it’d take is for a couple of well known members to either send some shit off for testing or say how good it is and orders start flooding in. If the source was LE they could bust all kinds of people making large orders and we all know how LE has listed the amount of gear in the arrest articles here on meso. 1 bag of var is xxx units of steroids, etc.
A few have already addressed this. Is it in the realm of possibility that Symbiotics could have been LE? Absolutely. Is it probable? No. Yes, the PO could have fucked up a bigger operation by the DEA but it seems highly unlikely. We could "suppose" all day but the most likely answer is the most probable one.
To your credit, yes, I believe LE probably watches this forum like hawk and there is little we can do about it other than think before we post and rely on the moderator/established members of meso to keep watch...as they seem to do a good job of doing.
I'm glad you and others question everything because it's worth questioning.
WHY IS IT UNLIKELY THAT SYM WAS LE?
It is a completely valid question:
If Sym was a direct agent of LE, then shutting the shop down so quickly with little to nothing to show for their efforts would be stupid.
Keeping the shop open over a long period of time would net way more value.
LE could potentially use the shop to gather valuable information on other members, offer potential connections to greater/wider resources, etc..
LE could have gained so much more if they gave Sym's shop time to grow within the community.
If Sym was not LE, got busted early on and had an LE handler, the same would apply.
If Sym was not LE, did not get busted and flipped by LE but was being watched by big LE, the same would apply.
Again, regarding Symbiotics being LE
I strongly believe that Symbiotic was way to good of a setup for his entity to be some small LE agency...either that or the DEA needs to hire this guy to work for them because they're doing a shit job placing agents as sellers to round up AAS users if that was their goal.
Let's face it: if LE was really focused on putting away guys like us then more of us would be doing time right now and boards like this wouldn't exist with long standing members. Steroids users are not the DEA's #1,2,3 or 4 concern regarding controlled substances.
Big LE doesn't really want to spend the time and resources to nail AAS users unless they can convert them to LE's side to nail bigger fish...I strongly believe you'd have to be a really well established AAS community member with LOTS of connections and clout to be targeted by an operation by a big LE agency. They'd only be interested in flipping someone who could give up more valuable information and resources.
Big LE operations are not fishermen casting lines off the side of a row boat hoping to catch a random fish, they are fisherman on big commercial stealth fishing vessels casting large nets and only keeping what is of value to their operation.
Sources in the UGL and members of meso are all over the world...we are in international waters. US UGL sources and meso based members are all over the country...we are surrounded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Meso's member base and UGL source board is not cinfined to a town, metropolis, or even a state...we are not in a pond, river, or lake.