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"This is an awesome service…for transporting drugs" - There can be safeguards put in and doesn't seem like this service would even benefit drug dealers. I'm mr. drug dealer and for some reason I want to trust a chain of 3rd party delivery people with my illegal substances. Not gonna happen.

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If your customers pay you before you ship, and they trust the shipper, it's definitely going to happen. Happens every day now already.

This same argument can be made for courier services and they seem to manage just fine.

There was a courier service that had an office next to mine about 15 years back that took all sorts of precautions that they weren't shipping drugs. Here's an article that shows that those guys (Asheville Courier) weren't an isolated case: http://network.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/article_ext...

I have a joke with my weed dealer, "Hey, can I PayPal you?"

No dealer wants a bunch of transactions that can tracked by the Feds.

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