Do EMS letters get searched leaving PP PO?

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cannabistourist wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 2:45 pm What risk ? You really think that people in EU fear to get caught for 10g of weed ? They fuxxin don't care even for 1kg. Cops would not even visit if a parcel with 10g weed was caught, it happened went send from other countries.
They will - to tax it.
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cannabistourist wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 2:45 pm What risk ? You really think that people in EU fear to get caught for 10g of weed ? They fuxxin don't care even for 1kg. Cops would not even visit if a parcel with 10g weed was caught, it happened went send from other countries.
In Germany getting caught with 10 grams of weed can certainly get you into trouble.
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hanno wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 4:07 pm
cannabistourist wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 2:45 pm What risk ? You really think that people in EU fear to get caught for 10g of weed ? They fuxxin don't care even for 1kg. Cops would not even visit if a parcel with 10g weed was caught, it happened went send from other countries.
In Germany getting caught with 10 grams of weed can certainly get you into trouble.
Friends caught there, only got a fine that they never paid.
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cannabistourist wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 4:08 pm
hanno wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 4:07 pm
cannabistourist wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 2:45 pm What risk ? You really think that people in EU fear to get caught for 10g of weed ? They fuxxin don't care even for 1kg. Cops would not even visit if a parcel with 10g weed was caught, it happened went send from other countries.
In Germany getting caught with 10 grams of weed can certainly get you into trouble.
Friends caught there, only got a fine that they never paid.
Well, a friend of mine got caught with two grams. Although courts have been told to drop the case for small amounts like that, they do not have to. That particular prosecutor insisted, friend got a fine of EUR 600.00. He went into revision and got an additional 3 months without parole....
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frank lee bent wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 5:14 am express mail service, run by an international postal union, abt 1/2 theprice of dhl et al
https://www.ems.post/en
Cheaper indeed but you get what you pay for. I find the service to be quite unreliable.
From my experience in SHV (and I doubt any delay greater than 24hrs to be from the local postman fault) it often take twice the time sending documents to some major European capital compared to the equivalent DHL service from PP. Once an ordinary letter I sent the day after to the same destination arrived a few days before the EMS enveloppe...
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Pretty sure that when it's sent they don't care, it's only receiving. It still may go through the X-ray.
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Yeah, whoever heard of local officials taking an opportunity to earn money?
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Well, that went down hill quickly it's not actually narcotics, but it is sensitive information that I don't want them seeing. Thanks anyway, I'll give it a go.
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People who post about how easy it is to smuggle things through the post are probably Narcs.
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