Customs opening parcel from Scotland

[Bridget1984]

I got a parcel of pop tarts from the uk in the post today which had opened by customs tape on it. I presume that the only reason customs would open a package from within the EU would be to look for drugs?? ? What is it about the look of my parcel that would have inspired some official to open it? Or is it that they target post to particular townlands/estates if some dodgy characters live in the area ?

 

[mathepac]

Importing Little Mix or PussyCat Dolls members could be seen as people trafficking. A bit of a stretch I know, but I don't make the rules.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Trafficking in tarts must surely be the worst type of trafficking.

Brendan

 

[NoRegretsCoyote]

I got a parcel of pop tarts from the uk in the post today which had opened by customs tape on it. I presume that the only reason customs would open a package from within the EU would be to look for drugs?? ? What is it about the look of my parcel that would have inspired some official to open it? Or is it that they target post to particular townlands/estates if some dodgy characters live in the area ?

Goods where excise is due (and there are many) can't be sent across borders within the EU by post.

 

[Leper]

Trafficking in tarts must surely be the worst type of trafficking.

Brendan

Sure thing! Ask Prince Andrew

 

[Leo]

What is it about the look of my parcel that would have inspired some official to open it?

It'll be very difficult for any of us to answer that, we haven't seen the parcel.

It might even be as simple as the parcel starting to break open as it gets 'gently' transferred along its route, and someone just using the tape they had to hand to seal it.

 

[Purple]

Sure thing! Ask Prince Andrew

A man who apparently likes his whiskey 12 years old and full of coke... at least I think it was whiskey he was talking about.

 

[Thirsty]

The man in question is well known for being teetotal.

 

[Peanuts20]

all depends on what they saw when the looked at the scan, probably round things with a substance inside them and that may have aroused suspicion

 

[Purple]

The man in question is well known for being teetotal.

I think he's now better known for other things.
...and not being able to sweat.

 

[JohnJay]

I got a parcel of pop tarts from the uk in the post today which had opened by customs tape on it.

Your Pop Tarts may have looked like blocks of spamspamspam as they passed through the scanners

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Your Pop Tarts may have looked like blocks of spamspamspam as they passed through the scanners

Very good point. Why would anyone send Pop Tarts by post to another country?

 

[mathepac]

Pre-Brexit Pop Tart panic buying and hoarding?

 

[Purple]

Pre-Brexit Pop Tart panic buying and hoarding?

They are being sent from Scotland. Is this vengeance for the food they took during the famine?

 

[mathepac]

Very likely