Parcel post a willing mule for smugglers

Express mail service has unwittingly become an accomplice of drug smugglers, Shanghai Customs said.

So far this year, eight of the nine drug smuggling cases intercepted at Shanghai ports were via parcel post, according to customs. The number was 16 out of the 28 cases last year.

Moreover, people who sign to receive the mail in these cases are usually not the drug dealers, according to the authority, and lawbreakers now tend to use young women as smuggling tools.