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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 2:44 am
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Originally Posted by evergrn
When you state that the custom officer ignores it when they see Tylenol#3, did you have a firsthand experience that you're basing this on?
Yup! Officer asked what it was, my wife said, "headache meds", he said "OK".

He did not ask specifically what it was.

He only asked because it was in an unlabeled prescription bottle.


No online pharmacy anywhere would purposely misdeclare a package and hide it among a necklace and send it to any foreign country.

More than likely, it was a family or friend who purchased the items and then tried to ship the oxy among the necklace. Declaring the item as a necklace was kind of stupid because it could be a high value item, which would automatically go for secondary screening and inspection.

There was some deception involved, she got bit.
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