... sometimes when i've purchased DVDs from the U.S. when the box arrives i find out it's been opened up, inspected and then re-sealed by federal officials. the government puts a little note on the box in which they provide a summary of what you've purchased. i bought a bunch of movies that the federal government classified as "porn" but they weren't porn, they were european art films!
... and to make the intrusion even worse, while the federal government is illegally breaching my privacy by looking at harmless items i've purchased, actual criminal mail fraud (credit card scams, land title scams, court order scams, bank fraud scams, etc.) all pass through the canadian mail system and get to my mailbox without obstruction!
... anyone else encounter similar hassles by the government?
Yeah, this one time they searched my bags when I came back from Amsterdam. I had some cigs that needed duty paid on them, but really...c'mon, there are people out there bringing real drugs into Canada all the time and they hassled me?!?!
... any idea what the reason is for why they open up and inspect private mail? and this doesn't happen every time i purchase something from the states, just occasionally ...
I have had it occur on small electronic parts, not any big electronics, just small electronic parts.
I think that if they can't ID the item through a scan, they open it up, but that is purely speculation on my part.
... but to put the label "porn" on a package is so degrading. i was so humiliated when i picked up the item from the post office knowing that the postal worker could see the label. what is the purpose of openly declaring that the videos were pornographic? i don't get it at all ...
... canada post has serious problems ...
And one right back at ya!
Made a fake stamp in graphics class back in 70's. Showed a cartoon Mountie steaming open a letter.
A friend mailed a letter with one instead of a real stamp. His girlfriend in Toronto got it unopened.
Inside were 3 Zig-Zags he'd soaked in hash oil....
Once got a software bundle 16 weeks later in the mail. They'd opened it, assessed 2c per floppy disk duty and attached a customs bill for 12c.