Weird piece of mail from Laredo

[jeffrefrig]

I retrieved an envelope from our mailbox yesterday. The envelope was the standard 3 1/2 X 6 1/2", the address was hand printed with a printed return address sticker, no company name, just a man's name and a Laredo, TX, address. Inside was a little, approx. 1" x 1" with about 6-8 tiny (BB sized) white chunks of what they called "100% sugar."

This typed note was with it:
If you don't have the courage to try it-then keep it. (Huh?)
What you hold in your hands is no ordinary sample. It is quantumly charged-a force of nature so potent it can unlock the doors to miracles. But first, you must overcome the suffocating grip of doubt and fear. Are you ready?
On one side, this unassuming grain of sugar is too small to be a poison or to be a drug. On the other, it holds within it the potential to be the most life-altering, mind expanding and profitable opportunity you've ever encountered. (Blah blah blah).
(Two more BS paragraphs of sales talk...)
Are you ready to take the leap?


Nothing else, just the piece of paper and the zip-lock tiny bag with its contents.
Called the wife to see if she knew anything. Nothing. I put on a pair of rubber medical-type gloves and dumped the contents down the sink and burned the envelope with my little Mapp gas torch.
I didn't call the Post Office or any law enforcement/drug enforcement agency; perhaps I should have, but I really didn't want a bunch of crime scene people in my house for a multitude of reasons.
Has anyone else heard of this New-To-Me type of communication?
Also, "is too small to be a poison or to be a drug" is a very untrue statement. A piece of fentanyl this big would kill several people, and LSD used to come in "micro-dots" about 1/4 the size of one of these, I heard, so that is an untrue statement that I know of. And, there were probably more.
It sounds like some super-powered sugar to me. And perhaps, not sugar, but some other plant.

 

[Onomea]

Well, that is certainly one of the more unusual direct marketing campaigns of which I have heard.

(Whatever it is, I wouldn't be buying any either!)

 

[375hh1973]

No guts, no glory.

Sounds like you missed out on a great opportunity

 

[soFlaNative]

Quick search found this:
Meet The Team | Cavazos


Maybe Bernie's the kid kept in the basement

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I couldn’t throw that stuff away fast enough!
Get it out of your house!

 

[326MOD10]

So you put an unknown substance that was sent to you from an unknown person down the sink and into the water supply route?

You may have a well and septic system but if you live in a city you know that water goes back into the water supply system and could affect others.

Maybe I am overthinking this.


Weird letter for sure and I used to hate, when the first Anthrax scares came out, people would call us up because they got a free sample of Tide in the mail (actually happened) but in this case I think a little inconvenience would not have been a bad thing.

 

[dockmurgw]

Here's the address. Take one of those grains, just add water and you get a condo. Says Access Denied, but the link works.

Access Denied

 

[dockmurgw]

but if you live in a city you know that water goes back into the water supply system and could affect others.

Only in the Southwest where they drink recycled sewer water. Hey, if someone's brave enough to drink sewer water they won't care about a few extra mystery chemicals.

 

[DWalt]

I would probably have turned everything over to the postal inspector. I once lived in Laredo. About anything is possible there.

 

[venomballistics]

Do you know how much fentanyl it takes to end your life?
Too small to be poison my eye...
You should have gone to the PD if for no other reason than it being a terroristic threat

 

[Rudi]

Totally weird. I would have turned it in, whoever is doing it needs to be stopped.

 

[Model29-26.5]

Was it wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay?

 

[375hh1973]

Do you know how much fentanyl it takes to end your life?
Too small to be poison my eye...
You should have gone to the PD if for no other reason than it being a terroristic threat

Is it terrorism to mail sugar?

 

[326MOD10]

Only in the Southwest where they drink recycled sewer water. Hey, if someone's brave enough to drink sewer water they won't care about a few extra mystery chemicals.

I ain't no genius and I surely am not a Doctor but still not a good idea.


I am not sure if your comment is humor or what but there is actually a water reclaiming plant in Fairfax, VA, just outside of our Nation's Capitol.

While it is not common in the US, I think I read 3% of US water is reclaimed, I also know that when I flush my toilet it doesn't magically eliminate any threat that was inside that water.

That is why they have asked people for years to stop flushing old prescriptions down the drain.

That water is going somewhere and generally, after treatment, it is back into our Eco-system.

I would also like to remind people that when you flush your magic toilet the water spews up and about and there is a splash zone. If I am putting a breathing hazard down my stool there is a chance I could contaminate myself in the process.

 

[dockmurgw]

I ain't no genius and I surely am not a Doctor but still not a good idea.


I am not sure if your comment is humor or what but there is actually a water reclaiming plant in Fairfax, VA, just outside of our Nation's Capitol.

While it is not common in the US, I think I read 3% of US water is reclaimed, I also know that when I flush my toilet it doesn't magically eliminate any threat that was inside that water.

That is why they have asked people for years to stop flushing old prescriptions down the drain.

That water is going somewhere and generally, after treatment, it is back into our Eco-system.

I would also like to remind people that when you flush your magic toilet the water spews up and about and there is a splash zone. If I am putting a breathing hazard down my stool there is a chance I could contaminate myself in the process.

I understand all of this, it's why I don't flush prescriptions. As for the first part of your second paragraph...I'll leave that for you to ponder for yourself. As for the second part of your second paragraph...THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[venomballistics]

Is it terrorism to mail sugar?

it can be and there have been cases

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Jeffrefrig, Under the circumstances you describe, my first thing would be to get the envelope out of my house and wash my hands.

The second thing would have been to call 911 and as much as you might dislike the attention, something like this should be handled by people who have the training and equipment to find out for sure just what this stuff is.

You have NO idea who sent this or why and the skimply return address and the location it was mailed from raises more red flags than a mayday parade in Moscow circa 1975. The note you quoted that came with this stuff in my view sent off fireworks as well.

Better safe than sorry.

 

[DWalt]

There are some cities that re-use treated sewage wastewater into the city supply. El Paso is one of them, I have seen their plant. A more common use of recycled treated sewage wastewater is for irrigation, such as parks, golf courses, athletic fields, etc.

 

[LVSteve]

Our water comes out of Lake Mead, and the treated stuff goes back into Lake Mead, albeit further down the lake. If it doesn't come back to us, it certainly goes South towards AZ, CA, and Mexico.

 

[sjmjax]

As little bit of topic drift here.

St Petersburg Florida was an early adopter of recycling water.
However, I really liked their approach. Totally independent lines and separate meters. Water was as previously mentioned only for irrigation.
Was much better than well water which locally had a high iron content and stained buildings and driveways.

Back to the original topic. I do hope we find out what the real intent of the strange mailing was supposed to accomplish.