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Again, your statements are false. The fact that the majority of parcels aren't being individually inspected doesn't mean that none are inspected or that violato
by sithadmin 4y ago
Again, your statements are false. The fact that the majority of parcels aren't being individually inspected doesn't mean that none are inspected or that violators are absolutely immune to consequences.
As implemented currently, US import inspections are designed to maximize throughput while catching the most flagrant violators. Extremely easy-to-smuggle items in low risk categories like seeds are obviously more often than not going to make their way past enforcement checkpoints under this arrangement.
- markdown 4y agoMost ordinary human beings would agree that a parcel inspection rate closer to zero percent than 1% means that there is no inspection of parcels. I can pretty much guarantee that nobody in this HN discussion has ever had a parcel opened, nor knows anyone who has ever had that happen to them. I mean, there's an entire industry of buying prescription medicine online from India and other places, which simply wouldn't fly in any other country.