The information I posted regarding the scanning of larger quantities of letter mail came from a slightly more credible source that just "a few mates" but I accept that it is not necessarily cast iron proof of what customs may or may not be doing, I just have it on very good authority they are implementing these practices more frequently. My personal success rate has dropped this year and the UK continues to be a challenging country for me to order from, I have no idea why my experiences ordering from there differs so much than many others but I am well aware I am far from alone in seeing a very notable increase in the number of no shows across the board over the past 4 months. I think it might also be worth noting that this aspect of the discussion in this thread was sparked by claims a no show was proof of selective scamming, something I challenged as a no show proves nothing and could very well be a customs seizure even if the person I was responding too claimed customs could never find a 1g order in a letter unless it was packaged very poorly. Having lost multiple small orders from vendors I know to have shipped I know for a fact customs can and do detect small quantities in letter mail regularly. Anyway this argument will continue until the cows come home, was being bounced around the forums 11 months ago when I joined and is showing no sign of letting up because in the absence of a clear context people will invariably create their own.