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jokethrowaway on Jan 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: German police take down 'world's largest darknet m...

In the UK: Occasionally someone gets fined and makes it to the local newspaper and all his friends laugh at how unlucky he was.

I suspect the cost for local enforcement or for the post office of preventing weed being sent via mail is just too high to be considered.

whatatita on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

The UK's domestic postal service - Royal Mail - is far too broken to even consider screening illegal packages. They make money from posting this stuff and they're too underfunded and stagnant to address it even they wanted to.

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