Info- Australian seizure stats

clearnet link - http://www.smh.com.au/national/customs-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-the-weird-and-wacky-ways-drugs-are-smuggled-in-20150711-gi9mdi.html

so there are 1 million pieces of mail coming in to the country per week, 588,000 air cargo shipments and 70 seizures per day

70x 7= 490 seizures per week 1,588,000 pieces of cargo/ mail per week chance of interception= 0.0003085 = 0.031%

However- this assumes that ALL packages contain illegal imports- you'd have to include estimates of drug imports to make these figures even remotely accurate, and I can't be fucked. Remember this does include people who get caught at airports, but does not include passenger numbers, so the actual figure is even smaller.

Also interesting is the fact that they seem to be looking increasingly at domestic mail-

'A new joint operation, code-named Icarus, recently intercepted 78 drug shipments moving through Victoria's mail system in just 77 days.'


Comments


[2 Points] loxsey:

Meth epidemic in Aus


[1 Points] pvl1979:

490 per week. OK, no problems.

But the seizure rate is MUCH higher than 1%. Rest assured of that.

Ever tried to get barbiturates from a well known supplier who is a woman masquerading as a man with a name starting with J?

I have. Seizure rate for that stuff? OK, shift the decimal point forward 3 places. You get 31% Hmmm. Yep. Sounds about right.

Oh and once you've lost a package it's best not to bother ordering to the same address as the next one WILL be seized. I know because it happened to me.


[1 Points] stinky_pete420:

More scare tactics about the OZ postal service. Its not more difficult than other countries to get drugs into,


[0 Points] TennisBal:

This sounds surprisingly a lot even though it's such a small %