TIL: You cant wipe prints off of paper.

The oils on your skin soak into the paper, they cant be wiped off even with a alcohol soaked rag, they are embedded in the paper. You have to soak the paper with alcohol to cause the print to disperse. Unfortunately you cant wear gloves for everything, like collecting postage and tracking. You can mitigate this by wiping your hands down with alcohol before buying them, the biggest cause of oil on your hand is touching your face.


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[4 Points] aboutthednm:

This is why a box of disposable latex gloves are a must if you send drugs to anyone.


[3 Points] None:

It's also cold in some parts of the US. Keep some thin gloves on while buying shipping supplies. Handle them with latex gloves after that.


[1 Points] Battyhole:

I heard of people in the uk using a synthetic coagulant used for cuts to paint their fingers with. Called "new skin" or similar


[1 Points] qemist:

Make your own envelopes out of wax paper. Problem solved!


[1 Points] OrangeHare:

Money is filthy, people fear germs, people are quirky and many other reasons = a good size chunk of people wearing gloves to the post office.


[1 Points] None:

Packages and envelopes are touched by many other people along it's travels to you and unless you're big enough for LE to pay a forensics team to cross reference fingerprints from several packages, then you're fine..

Between the costs of hiring a team and profiling your packs, it will cost authorities $20,000+ just to determine the perpetrators fingerprint. Even then, that fingerprint may not even be registered in their system. Unless you are sending anthrax or moving kilo's of coke, you are not worth the resources it would take for the feds to bust you.


[1 Points] None:

if you ask for the stamps to be put in a little baggie, they'll do it for you. same thing with tracking numbers