U.S. Postal Inspectors had a huge drop in drug intercepts last year. Any guesses on what happened?

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/drug-mail-drops-after-pot-stores-open


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[45 Points] pressedlessed:

Budget crunch, fewer inspectors


[24 Points] 100x100ug:

The numbers for those who didn't read the article:

Fiscal Year 2012 Fiscal Year 2013 Fiscal Year 2014 Fiscal Year 2015
Marijuana parcel intercepts 7,600 9,100 7,990 7,783
Pounds of marijuana seized 42,000 45,000 39,301 34,305
Non-pot drug-related parcel seizures 3,722 4,289 4,588 2,754

Though marijuana intercepts dipped, the number of non-marijuana drug parcel intercepts, a category that includes drug-related cash and other items, plummeted 40 percent, while the overall number of arrests for mailing of controlled substances fell from 2,221 to 1,932.


Any guesses on what happened?

Less markets, less vendors, increased stealth, and increased OPSEC from both vendors and average users.


[15 Points] bitservepd6bb:

Everyone started using sleds, duh.


[8 Points] None:

Better OPSEC on vendors past?????


[7 Points] None:

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[5 Points] whoahdudefuck:

less cash in mail because of btc adoption, the stat that actually decreased includes mail cash and other related things


[3 Points] None:

Everybody is missing the obvious here:

Cannabis being legalised in more and more states.


[2 Points] chevcheli0s:

Probably because of all those fuking exit scams.


[2 Points] blackhand25:

What I glean from this is that people are ordering smaller quantities as the systems vendors use become more standardized and provably safe for the public. I guarantee that if they had the power and budget to break every single package down to its component parts to find all possible molecules of contraband(and somehow do so retroactively) they would find that the shipment of narcotics is increasing drastically because the problem they can't and will never be able to get around is the fact that it is impossible to make a system that is both convenient and simple enough for the average user that is also completely secure. As the security holes are found and become known the means of shipment and stealth become more well known. The only way to prevent hundreds of thousands of drug parcels from going through the post office would basically have to rewrite the entirety of the laws that govern them and then give themselves a budget several hundred times larger than they currently have.


[1 Points] noonehear:

This statistic is useless without knowing the total number of parcels sent. To lazy to look this up.


[1 Points] thr0wawaay2:

USNews are damn fascists! How about a copy/paste for those of us using TOR?


[1 Points] goldandguns:

They stopped caring. Went after things they could actually solve


[1 Points] YeOldeShoppe2:

But my forever stamps will still be good for all eternity, right?


[1 Points] sullyrb:

giving up on a lost cause?