Well, Gentlemen
Having agreed with your comments and Dr. Evil's great posts, I'd say that there are actually a few of us around, but with a lot of guys living in a delusional, hyped sense of "getting the point," mainly from listening to people who don't know shit from shinola about the biz, offering all manner of crap advice about P.O. boxes and signing, et cetera, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
I've often asked myself, "Where the hell are the kindred spirits? Don't most people get the point?"
Except for a tight circle in which I communicate...to my surprise (even the 20 year old "mods") just...don't...get...it.
Dr. Evil, how many people willl even take the time to visit the URL you posted, let alone copy it for reference?
It is so weird to be asked, and to answer such fundamentally important questions, to some person who, for whatever freaking reason, became a mod on a board. I won't say "serious board," because there are few these days.
I guess it's due in part to this Costco and K-Mart style of advertising and open board posting and "approving" international (and domestic) sources and the need to get stuff without considering the right precautions and comprehending the consequences in the U.S. and Canada, particulary.
What's more, this is all so complex that the "How to" guides just don't cut it. Not for me, anyway.
I know how to stay safe now, in the U.S. and how to keep people safe there and in Canada. And that's from knowledge reading from serious (and laughably ignorant) people, watching how guys take falls, seeing people being narked on, having been "busted" myself, going "on vacation," and having worked from within the U.S. and overseas.
But I have no experience (or even real interest) in how to smuggle Mexican veterinery products across border, though. I like pharmaceuticals, made in people-oriented, government-controlled, clean labs, not questionable or "underground" shit, despite the marketing hype.
Dexter