Yesterday, while watching a news show, probably "60 Minutes,= I learned that many of the deadliest drugs, very toxic versions of opioids, are coming in from China, and most of the drugs are sent in through the US Postal Service. It seems that major delivery systems like UPS and FedEx must, by law, have all packages coming in from outside our country inspected before they can be delivered. However this same restriction doesn't apply to the USPS. If I remember correctly, it was sixteen years ago that the USPS was instructed to make incoming packages available for inspection, but cost restrictions have made it impossible to follow through with this directive at this time.
All this was somewhat interesting but I didn't think anything more about it until I heard a commercial on TV this evening. It was a commercial for the US Postal Service saying that they make more commercial deliveries to homes than any other delivery service. Probably just a coincidence but it does make me wonder.
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