Do you believe this? We Deliver is an online drug dealing service that “got a really, really good idea”, they say, by reading the U.S. Postal Code closely. It turns out that the Netherlands legalized euthanasia in November, 2000. It also turns out that postal inspectors in the U.S. are “prohibited from the internal examination of any
package containing the remains of a human whose life
be deemed legally and prematurely ended from without
the borders of the United States”, a provision originally intended to insure that the remains of soldiers who die abroad are unimpeded in getting back to their grieving families. So We Deliver hooks you up with the ashes of your long-lost and recently-euthanized Dutch relatives, they say. “…For a reasonable fee, we
set it up so that a guy in Amsterdam will send you a
little bit of the deceased’s ashes. And he’ll measure out
the exact amount of ounces (or pounds) of ashes that
you wanna order, put it in a box, slap on an official
Netherlands ‘Euthanized Remains – Urgent’ sticker and
send it to yer address.” You receive your package, open it and, lo and behold, find that the shipper goofed and it is not ashes but an equivalent weight of some other ‘stuff’. “Of course you might still be a little skeptical. You don’t
know for sure if we legit. And that’s why we givin’
away a free joint to everyone who signs up for our
newsletter before 4/20/01. Try it out, see if you like it,
and then see if you don’t come back. We Deliver, y’all.” [via Plastic]