Marijuana-Stuffed Mail Intercepts Hit Another High, Postal Inspectors Say - US News:
"The U.S. Postal Inspection Service ended fiscal year 2013 on a high, intercepting 20 percent more pot-packed parcels and tallying 14 percent more arrests and indictments for mailing controlled substances than in the preceding year.
During the fiscal year, which ended in September, inspectors confiscated 45,000 pounds of cannabis concealed within 9,100 parcels, according to Paul Krenn, an assistant inspector in charge at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
In fiscal year 2012 inspectors found 42,000 pounds of marijuana stashed in about 7,600 parcels."
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