[TZubiri]

Isn't this fixed by:

A: unpacking and inspecting the packages? B: The company assuming the risk and liability. C: The company collecting evidence through KYC and cooperating in the case of crime?

Probably too much hassle to save some bucks when compared to a courier service, though.

[dpark]

A. Maybe. Are you going to ship with someone who is going to open your package and rifle through it, though? I would personally also not feel confident in my ability to check fully for hidden illicit material if I were the courier.

B. No. Absent laws indemnifying the courier, a company saying “I’ll take the heat for those drugs you’re carrying” is not a meaningful act.

C. No. This seems like more of B.

This is all surmountable if the laws allow it. I assume FedEx drivers don’t go to jail of a package unknowingly contains drugs. But I don’t know what needs to be in place for random Joe to be acting as a casual courier without taking on legal liability.

[georgefrowny]

Also if you can get away with it, all drug traffickers would soon have an online order for their package so if stopped they can just say they're an innocent courier.

[TZubiri]

From a security engineering risk I don't think that would be an issue, because the same mechanism that catches malicious senders would be at play, the sender would have to identify through the app, with a payment provider and to the courier to send a package. The fake courier would have to sign up as a fake sender and be risk-exposed through the sender role.

Courier immunity does not confer much advantage compared to just signing up and having someone else send it. Except, it's true, that a trafficker could play both roles and self serve to avoid courier inspection/risk, there's some implications there for sure, but same as any job right? Pizza delivery guy could be selling drugs. It's not like transport is a niche job that might warrant specialized training and certification, it's like half the economy, tell me a commodity more central to business than oil, it can happen yes, but it isn't the end of the world if it happens on your business it's part of the trade, as long as you can deal with it, comply with the investigation, put preventive measures, and design the system with that in mind, I think it'd be ok.

Obligatory disclaimer. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, just my personsal opinion on the matter