{"id":3361,"date":"2016-05-27T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2016-05-27T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:26:44","slug":"dope-by-mail-another-challenge-for-the-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/dope-by-mail-another-challenge-for-the-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Dope by Mail: Another Challenge for the Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3362\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3362\" data-attachment-id=\"3362\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/dope-by-mail-another-challenge-for-the-postal-service\/drugs-in-mail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail.png\" data-orig-size=\"503,349\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Drugs In Mail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Methamphetamine in the mail. Source: http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail-300x208.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3362\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail.png\" alt=\"Methamphetamine in the mail. Source: http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story\" width=\"503\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail.png 503w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Drugs-In-Mail-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Methamphetamine in the mail. Source: http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S Postal Service\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/tag\/postal-reform\/\">financial and other operational challenges<\/a> regularly are in the news. Less well-known is its illicit drug problem.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the internet, anyone can now become a drug dealer. One no longer need join a criminal gang and suffer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rx8jnNaJHQc\">violent initiation ceremony<\/a>. Technological disintermediation means any schlub can order synthetic drugs online and peddle them. Supply sources can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2015\/05\/north_dakota_prosecutors_portl.html\">dark corners of the web<\/a>, with deals sometimes done through anonymous routers and bitcoin&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/2016\/05\/27\/dope-by-mail-another-challenge-for-the-postal-service\/\">Read more at the R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S Postal Service\u2019s financial and other operational challenges regularly are in the news. Less well-known is its illicit drug problem. Thanks to the internet, anyone can now become a drug dealer. One no longer need join a criminal gang and suffer a violent initiation ceremony. Technological disintermediation means any schlub can order synthetic drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Sd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}