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For air mail this is unlikely (everything is x-rayed), but for some surface mail or containerised freight it would be stupidly easy.

Rio made the interesting decision to use "TNT" as the internal code-name for the product which became the Rio Carbon. That project occupied our attention so much at the time that, to us, it became the primary meaning of the word TNT. This resulted, on at least one occasion, in Rio Santa Clara sending over here to Cambridge a box clearly labelled on its customs declaration "TNT Samples" and containing (what to an X-ray machine would be) small, unidentifiable circuit boards. Customs hadn't even opened it.



I had a slight problem a few years ago, I won't go into detail but suffice to say I bought an item from France and it ended up with CID questioning me. It might be that the type package was known by the postal workers though. Another person I know bought an Uzi part from the US (a frame I think, whatever it was it was legal to own), but the seller left in a certain part which wasn't legal to own, a receiver or bolt or something. He ended up in a Crown Court trial and got several years in prison. Luckily he appealed and got the sentence cut to time served, nine months I think.