The flow of fentanyl: In the mail, over the border
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Chinese drug traffickers had some advice for American buyers of fentanyl: Let us ship it to you by regular mail. It might be slower than FedEx or UPS, but the opioid is much more likely to reach its destination through the U.S. Postal Service.
These cyber drug dealers wrote their U.S.-based customers — in emails later uncovered by federal investigators — that private delivery companies electronically tracked packages, allowing the easy identification of mail from suspect addresses and creating a bright trail connecting sellers and buyers of illegal fentanyl.
The Postal Service for years did not institute similar safeguards…
Trump weighed in on the issue Friday, tweeting that he was “ordering all carriers,” including the Postal Service, “to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!).”
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