The USPS uses super high speed cameras that process thousands of typewritten and handwritten addresses and names to process the routing of international mail. The USPS expects to handle about 800 million pieces of international mail this year. The vast majority of these will be procesed by the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) camera systems. They read the name and address and turn it from written text into data that a computer can analyze. Perfect example, have you ever had your mail forwarded? Do you honestly think there is some poor soul who sits in a room all day comparing names and addresses to a forwarding order list?? It is almost all automated, with the exception of the ones that accidentally get missed by the computer.(see link below for more info)

ANY federal agency can access the information regarding, or inspect the contents of, mail coming from out of the U.S. without any reason whatsoever because it is crossing the U.S. border.

Finally, how do people order from an IOP ??? The Internet. If DEA or ICE learns of an IOP that is violating our importation laws, as 90% of them do, then they get a judge to issue a tap on the line. Commonly refered to as a T3 tap this will capture all transmissions into and out of the given IOP's site. Even the ones that actually do use encryption are probably using a weak encryption or one that the govt already has a key to. If nothing else they can capture your IP address when you log on, lookup your name and address, then ask the postal inspector's to flag mail to your address. Under the patriot act the feds don't even need a judge's order for a T3, it just makes it more legit when they want to bust the U.S. based buyer.

I have said it before and I will say it again, buying from IOP's is playing with fire. Trust me folks, there are people getting busted, about to get busted, or "red flagged" on a daily basis. No imagination involved here, just 14 + yrs of LE and working with state and fed LE.

My purpose is merely to educate, not scare people or end up getting flamed. U.S. OP's where you actually talk to a doc and send in your records are as safe as they come. The DEA might shut them down, but they have yet to get a conviction out of someone for using them in an honest manner.

PM me with further questions, but I can't release a whole lot more. One more thing, several "IOP" have recently been found to be nothing more than illegal drug operations operating within the U.S. border. It's like walking down to your local drug dealer, only you didn't know that when you were getting into it. The problem is that ignorance of the law is not a defense.

Best to all,

Pig in Pain

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