Royal Mail postmen are delivering cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis every day

Large quantities of medicine are being delivered by Royal Mail on daily basis within the UK, an investigation revealed immediately. 

Postal staff across the UK had been unwittingly delivering cocaine, ecstasy and hashish purchased on the darkish internet.

Among the many medicine ordered by investigators included an ecstasy tablet wrapped in plastic and hidden in a bag of Haribo sweets - which price £5 plus £three postage. 

Individuals who ordered cocaine, MDMA and hashish on-line mentioned there was 'a 99 per cent certainty' of them getting the medicine after ordering them on-line on the darkish internet.

Stunning: Postal staff across the UK had been unwittingly delivering cocaine, ecstasy and hashish purchased on the darkish internet (file image)

BBC Newsbeat discovered that sellers are promoting medicine on-line and taking cost in Bitcoins.

Investigators spoke to postmen and ladies who mentioned they'd 'undoubtedly dealt with suspect packages', however mentioned there was 'nothing they might do' - and needed to ship them as they'd stamps on them.

BBC investigators managed to purchase MDMA, hashish and former authorized excessive, Spice utilizing Bitcoins on the darkish internet, a set of hundreds of internet sites that use anonymity instruments to cover their IP tackle - with medicine arriving round per week later.

Chris Monteiro, an impartial cyber-security knowledgeable, mentioned: 'Except there are huge raids on markets any time quickly inflicting a lack of shopper confidence, this hidden drug market will continue to grow.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the Chair of the Dwelling Affairs Choose Committee, informed the BBC that the postal service and police wanted to work collectively extra carefully. 

'Authorities and police are extra concerned about knowledge breaches and weapons than medicine.'

A former person, calling himself Steve, informed the BBC that he had purchased hashish, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic stimulants on the darkish internet.

He mentioned: 'We had been ready for a bundle, for an oz. of MDMA to be delivered.

'We see the postie drive down and we get very excited. She offers me the bundle, I signal for it... completely satisfied doo-dah.

'Me and my buddy discovered it extremely humorous how she gave us the publish - and had no thought.

'She handed it over and mentioned 'thanks very a lot' and I mentioned thanks very a lot.

'She had no thought she was part of the medicine commerce.'

BBC investigators additionally went out on rounds with one postie in London, known as Patrick, who mentioned it was unlawful for him to open parcels he suspected contained medicine.

He mentioned: 'You inform the managers and all they are saying is you should ship it.'

'If it is obtained a stamp on it, you publish it. We do not have drug canine to odor each parcel. We do not have the sources to X-ray each parcel. We simply must ship it and take the danger.

I've spent 14 years as a postman in uniform and I've by no means seen a drug canine - our job is to ship it safely to the shopper.'

One other postie, who wished to stay nameless, mentioned: 'You hear rattling of issues like tablets and assume they're reliable, however how would we all know?'

Dr Adam Winstock, from Kings Faculty, mentioned tens of millions of kilos of medicine are purchased on-line on daily basis.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the Chair of the Dwelling Affairs Choose Committee, informed the BBC that the postal service and police wanted to work collectively extra carefully.

She mentioned: 'We have to know there is a correct strategy to enforcement going down

'One of many issues we need to know is how the police are capable of co-operate with completely different organisations.

'What is occurring to hyperlink up the police with postal companies or with customs or with different organisations? What's the federal government doing to guide this?'

A spokesman for the Dwelling Officer mentioned: 'We've dedicated to spending £1.9bn on cyber safety over the following 5 years, together with boosting the capabilities of the Nationwide Crime Company's Nationwide Cyber Crime Unit, rising their means to research probably the most severe cyber crime.'

A Royal Mail spokesman mentioned: 'The place Royal Mail has any suspicion that unlawful objects are being despatched by way of our system, we work carefully with the police and different authorities together with the Medicines and Healthcare merchandise Regulatory Company to help their investigations and to forestall such actions from occurring.'

 

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