News Oct 15, 2009 at 4:00 am

Smoker Says Company Invaded Privacy

Comments

1
Okay, Sean, that is a great story. Respect.

Please follow up on it -- the reporting on this has the potential for award-winning stuff, I think.
2
WOW, i always thought FED-EX was eefin' shadey, but i didn't think they were informats too! Fuck them! But that's what one gets for using a PRIVATE parcel service. Just stick to US mail, always!
3
So if it was someone's legal medicine it could've been tampered with by a vindictive or malice filled Fed-Ex employee, or even by accident? Or if it was food it could have been tainted? It seems like shipping anything is a dangerous idea, no more Christmas cookies? And now we have a better understanding as to how stuff we ship gets damaged in shipment, it wasn't dropped, and it's not new, not the food with a bite out of it, not the panties in an opened wrapper, nor the...?
4
The citing of the $100 insurance as a red flag by the FedEx employees is completely bogus. $100 is the default (i. e. no extra charge) insurance on US FedEx and UPS shipments. I do a lot of shipping, and I can tell you that the decision about delivery urgency and the decision about insurance amounts are entirely unrelated. In fact, the insurance amount decision includes many factors beyond even the value of the shipped goods (risk, perceived difficulty of collecting in the event of loss or damage, etc.) There was some other motivation to open and investigate the package. Perhaps this criminal (the FedEx employee, not Stinnett) routinely stole shipped goods, but considered the pot too risky to keep. Perhaps DEA or some local tribe of donut grazers was passing tips to FedEx, but FedEx doesn't want to admit that kind of complicity.
5
What it comes down to you dumb potheads is that FedEx has the right to open and search any shipment, because they are a PRIVATE company and you agree to the carriage contract that states that!
6
If I were on a jury, I would have no problem in awarding the plaintiff $200 million in damages to send an unmistakable message to FedEx.
7
Yeah, the potheads are dumb. Right. Except its us pot smokers who are winning the war on drugs. Figure that one out, dipshit.
8
The fact that WE're (this dying country) still prosecuting people over pot defies ALL sense & logic. So i guess this guy is facing federal charges which means YEARS in prison. It just goes to prove that the gears are set & the game is rigged AGAINST your average citizen!

If you're a cop, politician, priest, CEO, etc. you can do whatever you what, murder whomever, steal whatever you want, doesn't matter.

10
$10 he wrote something stupid on the package, or had some NORML return address stickers or something.
11
Whcih Fedex was this?

Please wait...

Comments are closed.

Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.


Add a comment
Preview

By posting this comment, you are agreeing to our Terms of Use.