FedEx Indicted For Failing To Look Into Its Packages To See If Any Online Pharmacies Were Sending Drugs
Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 20 July 2014
Back in March of last year, we were somewhat disturbed by UPS agreeing to forfeit $40 million to the US government for shipping drugs from "illegal internet pharmacies." Not that such drugs or pharmacies should be legal (that's a whole different discussion), but it's insane to pin the blame for the shipments on the shipping company, whose sole job is to get packages from point A to point B.
FedEx's job is to deliver packages, not examine everything inside those packages to make sure they're legal.
They could just put bright red stickers on the parcels, saying "Due to US regulations, we are forced to snoop around in your orders". That would make a lot of people pretty angry; and that's what politicians don't like at all.