Did everything right, still received a "love letter" on a domestic order : DarkNetMarkets | Torhoo darknet markets
I have been ordering from DNMs for about a year now, first through arch, then abacus, now DarkMatter and DrugHub.
Today I received a letter from USPS' Criminal Invetigations Service Center stating that,
"An item placed into the US Postal Services mail stream is currently being withheld from delivery as there are reasonable grounds to believe its contents are nonmailable as proscribed in US Postal Service Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail. Our atempts to contact you and the sender to obtain additional information have been unsuccessful."
The letter was sent via priority mail and looks and feels legit.
I have placed four orders recently, two from DH which have both arrived, one from DM which arrived, and one on Abacus two days before it shut down which never arrived. So in total, I have gotten three out of four of my orders in the past month. The Abacus order that did not arrive was from (well known vendor #4), and I am not sure if it ever shipped or not but was for a small number of pills, less than $100.
The letter is also dated July 17th, I placed the abacus order from (well known vendor 4) over a month ago now, but again, it is the only one that never arrived. My other 3 orders since then have all arrived without issue ((well known vendor #1), (well known vendor #2), and (well known vendor #3)). All the amounts were small, 14G or less.
All my orders were PGP encrypted, domestic only, and placed from highly reputable vendors. So, what gives?
It seems like everyones recommendation is to clean house and lay low for a bit, then look into getting a PO box. I have also heard from others to never use a PO box. Any other thoughts? I thought this was supposed to be a super rare occurence.
Edit: Edited to remove vendor names per advice in comments. Not trying to spread FUD about any vendor, I only order from vendors I thoroughly research beforehand and I trust all that were previously shared here.
You'll be fine, clean house and lay low until it blows over.
n the past year I have gone through ordering "periods" (ordering from multiple vendors at once over the span of 2-3 days) maybe four times. In total, maybe 15 or so individually paid for orders delivered to my address. So not a significant quantity, at least in my mind.
Edit: Sorry, realize i did not even answer your question. From my personal experience I only see a couple of these threads a month about LE getting involved with peoples orders. Overall, seems like a very rare occurrence given the volume of activity on dread and DNMs in general.
I am doing more research now, but there are a few incidents in my mind that could have contributed to law enforcement sending this letter,
1) either the same vendor we have used is compromised internally or externally (could be something as simple as needing better stealth),
or
2) there was exactly one time when I did not properly use PGP on Arch back when I was super green to DNMs. Law enforcement may have gotten ahold of this info during the Arch bust and preemptively sent out letters to all addresses listed within, even if there was no package intercepted.
Idk, thats all I have been able to come up with so far.