muscletrain
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Then dont speak on things you have zero experience in. Only the idiots that get caught are dumping off 20 packs and the local PO daily. There's a thing called prepaid bubble mailers/boxes, mapped out mailboxes that have no cameras pointing at them. So many ways to never even interact with the postal service.To each his own. I personally wouldn’t be comfortable returning every day to dump packages off at a federal agency. I couldn’t imagine especially hearing how post offices are flagging domestic mail as well. As matter of fact I was set up for a controlled deliver back in early days of underground labs. On an order size that really wasn’t much to brag about. The mail carrier dropped off my 2 boxes. Came back couple minutes later saying he forgot to get a signature. I was young dumb and in college at the time. I really wanted and needed that stuff. And I reluctantly told him these packages are not mine. The name isn’t mine on the package and I Am not waiting on anything. I couldn’t help but think did I just send away all my stuff for no good reason. Then couple minutes later one of my roommates walked in. She was across street talking being hit on by one of our neighbors. She asked did they have the wrong address and said she is pretty sure she seen a second person in there that ducked down. At that second I knew I did the right thing not accepting that package. She didn’t know what I ordered. I emailed the source telling him what happened. He shrugged it off. Several weeks to a month or whatever later nobody was getting their orders. Not only that but everybody’s money was sitting in Western Union not picked up.
So I’m not flaming him. And my best friend comes from a family with a lot of postal employees. And I heard some humorous events of opening suspicious packages. And yes using them to conduct business would scare me. And I saw many local sources do very well. As matter of fact I know two that couldn’t keep up on stock. They made trips to Texas and brought back what seemed like boatloads. Only one that had any problems with the law is you guessed it the one using the USPS to keep up with his stock.
I would hope a source wouldn’t sell locally under the same label as over the net. And I stand by what I said. It’s hard not to sell at least something locally especially if you have that look and everybody wants in on your secret. Unless his area isn’t so densely populated. And there are no huge golds gyms. And the local gyms are just holes in the wall. That is more or less what I thought he was going to respond as to why he never got into selling local before he ever thought about over the net.
The fact that you even have a semblance in your head of slinging gear locally over online discounts your opinion imo.
That is not to say half these USA small timers aren't smart and probably do continuously drop off bulk packages all the time, but smart people do exist.