>I'm more interested in the logistics part of this.Assuming a good % of buyers are Americans,how an Octopus from Spain or a Unicorn from Sunnyland get delivered

>I'm more interested in the logistics part of this.Assuming a good % of buyers are Americans,how an Octopus from Spain or a Unicorn from Sunnyland get delivered via customs? As far as I know, US can be very very picky about importing some random food... Anyone could elaborate on this? I clear international freight through customs for a living, a good deal of importing small amounts of stuff is on the honor system. Sure, customs will randomly search shipments but I can think of many ways I could increase the likelihood of an individual getting something past customs. I will share them all, or even elaborate in any real detail but these tare all data points that could be considered: - description - value - country of origin - Declaring it as a REDACTED and/or as REDACTED - Sending it as REDACTED Then there are methods of packaging that can also increase chances of avoiding detection. Look, people ship illegal drugs internationally daily via darknet market purchases (I mean, open your DNM of choice and you can have a kilogram of cocaine shipped to your door domestically and internationally, clearly it's not all getting seized otherwise the listings would dry up as customers got burned), you also have gobs and gobs of counterfeit goods, goods from sanctioned/embargoed countries, etc all slipping by Customs (at least in the United States). A lot of it is purely due to the fact that, unless the inspect a package, it's an honor system "I claim this is what is in this box I'm sending to Bob in America" combined with the sheer volume of packages. I mean, on average PER DAY in fiscal year 2018, Customs processed 95,890 entries [1] of merchandise at air, land, and sea ports of entry. Most of that, never gets reviewed by a human being on the end of Customs as a lot of it is electronically transmitted via ABI and if any number of computer decisions don't flag it, it clears within seconds. [1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/typical-day-fy2018 https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/typical-day-fy2018