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Oh, man!! you accuse other people of having prejudices about yourself while making prejudices yourself. Your control experiment was "we put labels and we did n
by pipio21 10y ago
Oh, man!! you accuse other people of having prejudices about yourself while making prejudices yourself.
Your control experiment was "we put labels and we did not put labels". That is a very weak one.
People in customs anywhere are going to stop and look at anything out of the ordinary. That is their job because drugs, diamonds and so on use to be in out of the ordinary packages.
We send 3d printer pieces around the world. We are part of an engineering NGO that promotes education using new technologies, specially in poor countries.
At first almost anything we sent was stopped, opened and inspected(and delayed). Now everything goes smooth.
Difference? We asked customs or people in other countries the actual reasons for being delivered late and the reasons made a lot of sense. Reasons like terrorism in Colombia for example.
They also teach us ways to improve our packaging so next time we send it much better. Around the world there are different conventions for putting serializing address for example. You put it in wrong order and the postman will have serious problems.
There is also people there(in customs or in the companies), when they know you it is way easier. Not because you are atheist or not, but because you can be a drug dealer and they could lose their job if they don't detect it.
Seriously, you are not that important. They have bigger problems to worry about.