Quote from: unknown79 on March 01, 2012, 12:10 amPine: I think you underestimate how many drugs are traveling through the Postal Service. I was watching a documentary on this subject, and busts of ~25-50kg of cocaine have been found being shipped through the postal service. Over 43,403 lbs were shipped in 2009, and the rate goes up every year. Now take into account how much actually makes it to the destination? The success rate among SR forum members is 97%...Personally, I probably would not order more than 1/2 oz of molly at a time. While I know the risk of seizure is low, I'm not at a point where I can stand to lose $600..But I have no doubt amounts up to a pound or more would have no problem going through the postal service, especially from a domestic vendor like Tony.The success rate on SR is 97.51%, and although we're rightfully proud of that figure, it's only there because we are smart and don't take huge risks all at once. I'll bet no participant in my survey was shipping > 1kg.Here is the thing, the DEA focus most of their energies on catching distributors, followed by dealers. A pound suggests a distributor, but ~40 packages containing ~10 grams just says dealer(s), especially when you alternate your packaging, return addresses etc. While they analyze every little drug package they get hold of, that's much different to continually trying to compare different packages to look for clues indicating a single seller. The most they can do, providing you didn't leave biometric samples for them to collect, is take a photo and look for very similar matches with a pattern matching algorithm. Except all business post pretty much looks the same, so it's a bit of an extreme reach if the seller is alternating the packages he uses.I doubt they do that just yet though. They didn't even have a international fingerprint sharing program until very recently I'm told, it's a recent innovation. Fingerprints have been taken from crime scenes for around a century...I admire the Australian police, they keep us on our toes for sure even though logistics play a role in supporting them, but their style of thinking is a rarity, most police are old school and imagine the blue 'e' is the internet.Anyway, with the high value drugs, the costs of postage and time spent doing professional reverse package profiling etc is relatively trivial overhead (but probably not for weed, which must clearly suck since it's also the easiest drug to detect).The overhead of the additional packaging and fuss is more than compensated for by the:- 'going under the radar insurance'- greater probability of packages making it through, thus saving you money in the long term.If you're shipping below the felony amount (usually ~ 20-30g depending on your state), then anybody who gets a controlled delivery can at most expect a misdemeanor charge which at the most will translate to a couple of days in lock-up or a fine. A good vendor on here easily can shift 1000 or more packages a month. By next year, I expect a zero to be added to that and vendors will become truly corporate by starting hiring to keep up with the growth.That's the strategy I'm comfortable with. I'm not saying it's the only strategy around, but I'm telling you it can scale up magnificently if you have the right equipment and process and you've practically no chance of getting caught.There is also another reason to prefer my model.Eventually, the Silk Road or a similar site will become huge, the literal so-called Amazon.com of drugs. When that happens, the vertically integrated business strategies that don't depend on middlemen will be the ones that succeed. Look at your high street, there isn't as many electronic stores and bookshops as there would be if Amazon.com and Ebay.com didn't exist. Similarly, the middle of the drug chain, thanks to modern technology, is going to take a huge hit over this century. They took our jobs man! etc Meanwhile, the manufacturers and growers of drugs will be able to monopolize all the way from the factory/field right down to the customer. This is classic business economics 101.So in the long term, Roberts is correct. The Silk Road concept will create a less violent world and a more predictable one. Somehow I think even LEO will be pleased with the end result even if they fight it every step of the way.