Royal Mail sorting office calls cops after spike of drugs in Christmas cards

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Police find it difficult to track down the senders of drugs by post.

A Royal Mail sorting office has reported a spike in the number of people sending DRUGS in Christmas and greeting cards.

Police have intercepted a number of cards containing cannabis from the Royal Mail sorting office in Swindon.


Officers were alerted by staff who smell the Class-B drug through the envelope.

Inspector David Tippets, from South Swindon Police, said the force had intercepted around 30 similar packages in Swindon.

"It's normally cannabis, because it's got such a strong smell, if it's in an envelop and there's an obvious lump it gets easily identified," he said.

"Some dealing must go on online but in Swindon we deal with the more traditional methods of dealing, with a customer being supplied directly or by a runner as a cash business.

"Certainly the birthday card we found is still effectively supplying controlled drugs. Money doesn't have to change hands for it to be an offence.


"Generally what we do is seize the item at the sorting office and it gets destroyed and we record it as intelligence."

Police can have difficulty in tracking down the senders of drugs by post.

It has has become a popular method among dealers who use encrypted online market places to sell and deal drugs which are then concealed in harmless-looking packages and cards.

[Sir Henry]

Effin NARCS! We've had a few small envelopes of skunky bud come through our DO over the years. Last one was an envelope that had come open. There was a lot less in there after it had been through a few pairs of hands to verify that it was indeed White Widow.