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AirBnB as your criminal conspiracy supply chain strategy seems like a bad idea, how trivial would it be for the DEA to get a list of addresses on past/current listings, then search USPS db history to find patterns to investigate.

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All USPS would see is an Airbnb house that got a package. No return address so there is nothing to investigate.

If your threat model is "DEA busts darknet seller" they'd get a big stack of delivery addresses where drugs have been sent.

If a bunch of those addresses turned out to be AirBnB they could subpoena the details of who paid for the leases. Especially if their orders were large enough to indicate they were selling the stuff on.

The student is signing for the package, I bet the dealers reuse fake ID or reuse the same airbnb places. Now do controlled delivery next time those addresses with patterns have packages and merely threaten the student into cooperation or follow them for second controlled delivery and bust entire crew for conspiracy to traffic which is a decade in jail at least, especially interstate trafficking. This is a weak criminal scheme made weaker by taunting the police by telling a journalist about your scheme, now they have to bust you to save face.

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