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how does the postal service solve the problem of drugs being mailed? genuinely i am not sure how they avoid it
They subject all packages to x-rays and chemical tests that random drivers have no way whatsoever to perform. Delivery companies (yes, the world outside US has them) do that sort of thing too.
seems like that would make the whole system incredibly inefficient and could even damage items, but if it is true, there is no reason something similar couldn't be implemented in a p2p model.
Incredibly inefficient, exactly. Then we lose to normal grocery delivery services because they don't have to do anything like the postal service does.
This is why I don't believe a pure p2p replacement of a postal service is feasible, but it should be possible to tell a random driver to buy a kilo of tomatos in a random supermarket and deliver it. This is subpar because we'd like the supplier to use bitcoin too.
how in your model do bitcoiners end up fighting off drug dealers?
I didn't mean that bitcoiners have to give them a shooting battle. I mean that bitcoiners would either have to embrace them or (more likely) tell the drivers to only deliver packages that look like normal consumer goods. Which will make the drug dealers invent ways for drugs to look like normal consumer goods. And then the police will be very annoyed again.
I'd guess we'll get less hassle from farmers' market sort of events.
The delivery service is both desperately needed and very dangerous, because people will start using it for drugs, and then police will be very interested in this whole affair. Bitcoiners who just want to have their food delivered will have to fight off both goverments and drug dealers, and this is going to be difficult.