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The flow of fentanyl: In the mail from China, over the border
Washington Post ^ | 08/23/2019 | By Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham

Posted on 08/23/2019 11:18:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

NEW YORK — Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S. Postal Service.

These cyber drug dealers wrote their U.S.-based customers — in emails later uncovered by federal investigators — that private delivery companies electronically tracked packages, allowing the easy identification of mail from suspect addresses and creating a bright trail connecting sellers and buyers of illegal fentanyl.

The Postal Service for years did not institute similar safeguards — and that gaping hole in the nation’s borders has not been fully closed despite legislation compelling its elimination. Fifteen percent of all packages from China are still not electronically tracked, and the figure rises to 40 percent for all packages from around the world entering the United States.

“What do we not know about these packages that are coming in?” Frank Russo, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port director at John F. Kennedy International Airport, said in an interview.

“When you’re talking about a million packages a day,” he said, noting the amount of international mail arriving at JFK alone, “40 percent is a large number.”

On Wednesday, the Trump administration sanctioned three Chinese nationals accused of trafficking fentanyl, identifying two of them as “significant foreign narcotics traffickers.” Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker said the “Chinese kingpins” directly contributed to the nation’s opioid addiction crisis by shipping hundreds of packages of synthetic opioids to the United States.

“The most common distribution medium is via the U.S. Postal Service,” the Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the sanctions.

Trump weighed in on the issue Friday, tweeting that he was “ordering all carriers,”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; chinafentanyl; fentanyl; opioids
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To: SeekAndFind

The left ignores 30,000 overdose deaths per year but the “real” crisis is rifles, which are involved in a few hundred deaths a year.


21 posted on 08/23/2019 12:52:49 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'll weigh in on this.....it's actually significant what the Postal Service does and how they identify packages etc. coning from China and other countries known to supply fentanyl.....it's not as though they can't recognize the usual ways the Chines package and hide this stuff. It's remarkable what they hide this drug in....the problem is they 'flood' packages in and are quite content with whatever happens to make it through....China has many factories that actually fake package products specifically hiding fentanyl....purposely. And Canada is also now their target..This IS a drug war.


22 posted on 08/23/2019 1:11:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: SeekAndFind

The low cost USPS rate to USA from China ends on 10/7/19...following Trumps EO of 10/7/18 withdrawal from the International Postal Union


23 posted on 08/23/2019 1:12:46 PM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'll weigh in on this.....it's actually significant what the Postal Service does and how they identify packages etc. coning from China and other countries known to supply fentanyl.....it's not as though they can't recognize the usual ways the Chines package and hide this stuff. It's remarkable what they hide this drug in....the problem is they 'flood' packages in and are quite content with whatever happens to make it through....China has many factories that actually fake package products specifically hiding fentanyl....purposely. And Canada is also now their target..This IS a drug war.


24 posted on 08/23/2019 1:14:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: SeekAndFind
I'll weigh in on this.....it's actually significant what the Postal Service does and how they identify packages etc. coning from China and other countries known to supply fentanyl.....it's not as though they can't recognize the usual ways the Chines package and hide this stuff. It's remarkable what they hide this drug in....the problem is they 'flood' packages in and are quite content with whatever happens to make it through....China has many factories that actually fake package products specifically hiding fentanyl....purposely. And Canada is also now their target..This IS a drug war.


25 posted on 08/23/2019 1:14:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: oldasrocks

The Self Cleaning Oven Theory, as a friend calls it.


26 posted on 08/23/2019 1:25:41 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (We had entirely enough government in 1789.)
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To: SeekAndFind
”If the tax payer has to foot the bill, it becomes the taxpayer’s representatives ( AKA government ) business.”

Well that is settled.

27 posted on 08/23/2019 1:32:05 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: spokeshave

“The low cost USPS rate to USA from China ends on 10/7/19...following Trumps EO of 10/7/18 withdrawal from the International Postal Union”

I wish Canada would do the same. It costs eBay and AliExpress sellers in China virtually nothing to ship stuff here by mail, subsidized by our postal system. Subsidized to undercut importers and sellers that actually have a presence here, and provide some kind of service.


28 posted on 08/23/2019 1:45:12 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s probably costing taxpayers enormous amounts of money for Postal Service security.


29 posted on 08/23/2019 2:46:58 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SeekAndFind

Communist China is Philippines President Durterte’s supplier of Fentanyl. That’s why he is Xi’s butt-buddy.


30 posted on 08/23/2019 7:20:40 PM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary.)
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To: Starcitizen

I don’t get what you’re trying to drive at. Pres. Duterte has killed thousands trying to fight the scourge of drug trafficking in the Philippines and now you’re telling us that he himself is an addict?


31 posted on 08/23/2019 7:26:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Duterte’s relatives smuggle Chinese crystal meth (shabu) into the Philippines. Chinese smugglers, in fact an entire large scale Chinese meth producing facility was found. The Communist Chinese are always let go. He is just killing the users.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/05/03/1811647/duterte-kin-cleared-faeldon-faces-raps-boc-shabu

And yes is a known addict of Fentanyl. It’s all over the Filipino press.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/10/17/duterte-on-fentanyl-use-felt-like-cloud-nine


32 posted on 08/25/2019 1:42:00 AM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary.)
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