[venomsnake]

I am not talking about security. Fedex being the scumbags they are allow you to deliver 4 pounds of anything legal, anywhere in the world for a 100$. That is the price you have to compete with. Also post has some more rigorous privacy protections than a real human at the border.

IANAL - so check this things on your own

Thing of the top of my head that could go very wrong with ease:

1. Brown guy bringing anything into the US - the non racially profiling DHS and TSA seem to have random generators that are very good at avoiding WASPs and catching persons with high amounts of melanin in the skin. Also at the US border you don't have reasonable expectation of privacy and the federal government can detain you indefinitely. (check EFF) How much do you expect as a compensation to take that kind of risk?

2. Child porn - the eternal scare. The problem arises from that the definition for CP in most of western Europe and USA and Canada is "anything that the procecutor think is CP". You will be able to filter the real disgusting stuff (lets hope so) but what about family pictures where the mother is playing with her 5-10 year old on the beach. You need just an overzealous prosecutor that needs bodies for the sex offender list and your courier can be in very long and expensive legal battle. Will you pay for that?

3. Anything encrypted in UK or Russia - in UK you are obliged to decrypt anything that the authorities think is encrypted information and in Russia it is just illegal.

4. Anything that could be considered blasphemous in the Arab world and the Muslim parts of Asia.

Should I go on?

[anandsatyan]

We have experts in our team who know what's not allowed in certain countries. There's a Google Adwords like system in place where once you post a package it is reviewed to check whether it's legal to take that thing to the destination city. The traveler is also intimated about any suspicious activity. I understand that this is just a preliminary check an that it's impossible to make the system completely bulletproof considering people find crazy ways to ship cocaine and drugs. But this is a chance we are willing to take. We try to do everything to ensure transparency and will plug all holes one at a time.