Post and delivery outlets urged to stop drug dealing

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Post and delivery outlets urged to stop drug dealing
By The Nation

 

File photo : Bomb squad inspect suspicious boxes at Bangkhen Kerry Express.

 

BANGKOK: -- POLICE PLAN to engage Thailand Post and Kerry Express, a leading parcel-delivery firm, in thwarting the trafficking of drugs.

 

“We need to take proactive measures in preventing the delivery of illicit items, including drugs, via such services,” Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakparn, head of the Patrol and Special Operation Division, said yesterday.

 

Surachet said he would meet with executives from Thailand Post and Kerry Express on Wednesday.

 

He disclosed the plan after announcing a crackdown on an online-based drug trafficking network that has delivered illicit drugs to customers via mail order. 

 

A Bangkok teenager was arrested for allegedly selling drugs by mail order via social media. 

 

Surachet said the suspect, whose name was being withheld because he is a minor, sold marijuana to customers via LINE and Facebook. 

“Through these communications channels, they negotiated on prices and discussed delivery details. 

 

“After customers transferred money for the illicit drugs, he mailed it to them,” Surachet said. 

 

He said police, acting on information, searched the teenager’s house in Lat Krabang in Bangkok and found 37 bars of marijuana.

 

The suspect told police he began trading in drugs about four months ago at the recommendation of a customer who frequented a restaurant where he worked as a waiter. 

 

Under interrogation, the young suspect implicated 20-year-old Sarapichai Siriprayong. 

 

In a later raid on Sarapichai’s house, 4,000 methamphetamine tablets were allegedly found in his possession.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30317189

 

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[wakeupplease]

I hear the 3rd service The BIB offer a reliable delivery service for this sort of thing

[terminatorchiangmai]

Might as well name him , his life is over any way now writing about him being the snitch on the other guy.

 

[JAG]

If they dropped drug dealing they could concentrate on delivering mail!

I had three letters from the UK delivered by the same post last week. All from the same sender in the UK. One posted in March, one in April one in May! All opened, read and put back in the envelopes.

 

 

[robblok]

5 minutes ago, JAG said:

If they dropped drug dealing they could concentrate on delivering mail!

I had three letters from the UK delivered by the same post last week. All from the same sender in the UK. One posted in March, one in April one in May! All opened, read and put back in the envelopes.

 

 

They obviously see you as a security risk and keep an eye on you.. I feel safer already. 

 

Never had a problem myself... actually did lose one letter but otherwise everything comes in parcels and all. I think it really depends where you live. I have so far not received any drugs by mail. I don't know why, maybe I have to order it first and my drugged up brain forgot too 

 

Seriously checking all parcels is impossible, I can't see how they can do it. Now they already register senders, so that is one step. I hope they don't start random openings at the post office.. that might cost a lot of time. I do find it smart of dealers that they work this way. The most risky part of selling and buying is the contacts made to exchange the product. There will always be new ways found to do stuff like this. 

 

They should just legalize pot and be done with it, tax it and then they will get some tourists back too. I can imagine the appeal for some to smoke one at the beach (not me can't smoke my lungs object too much to it)

[impulse]

13 minutes ago, JAG said:

If they dropped drug dealing they could concentrate on delivering mail!

I had three letters from the UK delivered by the same post last week. All from the same sender in the UK. One posted in March, one in April one in May! All opened, read and put back in the envelopes.

   

Looking for that 10 pound birthday note from Grandma...

[impulse]

4 minutes ago, robblok said:

Seriously checking all parcels is impossible, I can't see how they can do it.

 

Could kill 2 birds with one stone by training soi dogs to sniff out drugs and bombs.  Win-Win

 

[robblok]

Just now, impulse said:

 

Could kill 2 birds with one stone by training soi dogs to sniff out drugs and bombs.  Win-Win

 

I missed the word soi at my first reading and thought you were serious about training dogs to sniff out drugs (it works but would be hard to get so many dogs to do it 100%). then i read again about the soi part and knew you were joking. 

 

I am sure there are already random searches of parcels by sniffer dogs. 

[impulse]

1 minute ago, robblok said:

I missed the word soi at my first reading and thought you were serious about training dogs to sniff out drugs (it works but would be hard to get so many dogs to do it 100%). then i read again about the soi part and knew you were joking. 

 

I am sure there are already random searches of parcels by sniffer dogs. 

 

I've seen a beagle at LAX check out over 1000 pieces of luggage in an hour.  And that's with all the distractions of people and bags constantly moving.  I know it wouldn't be 100%, but a couple of well trained dogs wandering around a warehouse could make a significant dent.  There shouldn't be anything random about it.  (Though I'd train them to look the other way for weed if I were in charge of the project- I'm for legalizing it even though I don't partake.)

 

I was only partially kidding about the soi dogs. May as well do something useful with them.

 

[robblok]

Just now, impulse said:

 

I've seen a beagle at LAX check out over 1000 pieces of luggage in an hour.  And that's with all the distractions of people and bags constantly moving.  I know it wouldn't be 100%, but a couple of well trained dogs wandering around a warehouse could make a significant dent.  There shouldn't be anything random about it.  (Though I'd train them to look the other way for weed if I were in charge of the project- I'm for legalizing it even though I don't partake.)

 

I was only partially kidding about the soi dogs. May as well do something useful with them.

 

I get you about lax.. but my point is that it would still be a huge investment in dogs and organisation. I mean there are so many regional post collection points they would all have to have dogs. I believe these dogs are not cheap at all nobody wants to bear the costs that is for sure.

 

I am for legalizing too.. and I do partake but only if i can use a vaporizer, I have never smoked (anything) for real as i start coughing so much and almost throw up.  I have done it in the past gives a nice buzz and fun to watch a movie that way or chill with friends. Much more relaxed as drinking alcohol. But then my other problem would arise.. id assault a mars bar.. or beat up a pizza. Really bad for my diet   (one of the main reasons not to partake if it was legal here)

 

[akirasan]

The most surprising thing about this is that the police are surprised this is happening.  

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

If they dropped drug dealing they could concentrate on delivering mail!
I had three letters from the UK delivered by the same post last week. All from the same sender in the UK. One posted in March, one in April one in May! All opened, read and put back in the envelopes.
 
 

They didn't read them.

[JAG]

They didn't read them.

No probably not - there were no pieces of paper with The Queens portrait and nice round numbers to read...

[bangkokairportlink]

So now Kerry is also going to ask to show what is in the parcel ?

I feel like living in North Korea !

 

 

[anon4637435435]

Solong as i can still get my military grade ammo and hardware via the post i dont care. Most drug users arent going to wait for the mail so im assuming its bigger dealers supplying other dealers. Stopping it wont stop the drugs. Wasted effort!

Corruption is the real problem here that needs a kick in the ass first. 

Oh and Legalize maryjane.

[billmichael]

3 hours ago, terminatorchiangmai said:

Might as well name him , his life is over any way now writing about him being the snitch on the other guy.

 

I read a book titled, "4,000 Days" describing the adventure of a young drug courier from Australia who was taken into Thai custody and then spent 12 years in a very bad prison there.  I cannot imagine how anyone would risk being put into a Thai prison.  If Thai prisons are one step next to a NAZI prison camp (as described in the book) how could anyone even dream about handling illegal drugs.  Oh, well, desperate times, desperate people...???

[rkidlad]

Also, if murderers could stop murdering, rapists stop raping, etc. Cheers. I'm off for an extended lunch break. Som tam here I come. 

[lvr181]

"In a later raid on Sarapichai’s house, 4,000 methamphetamine tablets were allegedly found in his possession."

 

And the Police discovered who he bought them from? And so on, up the supply train to the very top?    I wouldn't hold my breathe over that one!

[halloween]

2 hours ago, billmichael said:

I read a book titled, "4,000 Days" describing the adventure of a young drug courier from Australia who was taken into Thai custody and then spent 12 years in a very bad prison there.  I cannot imagine how anyone would risk being put into a Thai prison.  If Thai prisons are one step next to a NAZI prison camp (as described in the book) how could anyone even dream about handling illegal drugs.  Oh, well, desperate times, desperate people...???

The moron should consider himself lucky. Not that long ago they would have tied him to a post and introduced him to the business end of a M-60.

 

That said, I agree going into a Thai prison is not to be risked lightly.

[Redline]

Come on, and entrepreneur with a successful business.  They have not been able to stop it in the USA.  So, will they make them buy scanners and open all suspect packages?

[bangkokairportlink]

11 hours ago, bsdthai said:

Solong as i can still get my military grade ammo and hardware via the post i dont care. Most drug users arent going to wait for the mail so im assuming its bigger dealers supplying other dealers. Stopping it wont stop the drugs. Wasted effort!

Corruption is the real problem here that needs a kick in the ass first. 

Oh and Legalize maryjane.

 

Nothing stops the drug anyway. Only stupid politicians, and retarded from army or police of this world still do not understand this, or pretend not to understand it because they are scare to lose their low so job.