Urgent help needed - drugs posted to my house

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I’ll keep it brief - package came , my address , random name not related to anyone in my house (I’m in U.K. ) had old postage label on back for an address in Canada - the surname was “postage” ..this looked to be from a previous package , basically the packaging was being re used . My address was on a declaration label stating it contained a hat . I opened package as no one in my house claimed it , an old hat , 2 odd socks and inside one of the socks a substantial amount of white powder in a bag ! Postage label says October 6th . It was on my doorstep yesterday . I want to go to the police but I’m worried someone’s going to turn up at my house looking for this . How would it end up at my house - is there such thing as a scam where it’s used my house as an address For some reason ? I just want to know why it’s here , why my address ? I am a childcare provider and have a house full of children ! Thank you for advice

Snort it, no doubt.

A former colleague was sticking their neck out collecting information for their local police in something of a no-go area. Liaison officer visited discreetly but took great exception to personal defence equipment (not firearms) kept by the front door.
Charges were dropped after two years of stress. CID were apparently surprised and disappointed that the flow of intelligence in the area had dried up.

Lest we forget:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56414446
'A senior Met Police officer has said he cannot apologise for the force's actions at a vigil for Sarah Everard.
Officers handcuffed women and removed them from the gathering on Clapham Common in London on Saturday evening.
Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House told City Hall his officers were "doing their duty as they saw it" to enforce Covid legislation at the event.
He said some officers had been on the receiving end of "abuse and violence" and had plastic bottles thrown at them.'

Oh, I believe you when you say what happened. What I do not believe is someone would spend 13 pounds to mail a package back and forth with just a hat and a couple of odd socks and "nothing else" but a baggie of non-drug white powder. I believe the bag either contains or did, at some point, contain something worth more than 13 pounds. Or someone has some money to spare to play a prank that fell flat on its face.

Can we talk about what it might actually be though. Doesn’t look like coke to me, too sandy. But that’s a lot of whatever it is

I don't want to say the name of the specific substance @Glipsy as I don't want to give anyone ideas or further encourage this but I'm pretty sure it's a substance there have been a lot of suicides linked to in recent times.

its been made illegal and very very hard to obtain in this country because of this but there was a major seller in... Canada.

OP did the right thing by handing it into the police.

I agree with the semolina assumption.

I have personal experience with the most common white powders from a misspent youth and they're normally lumpy and damp-looking or grainy with hard lumps where they've dried out.

OP's pic looks flakey. Coke can be flakey sometimes if it's really high quality but those are usually shiny flakes and I'd still expect to see some hard lumps.

I don't know anything about fentanyl. I assume if it is homemade it also starts off wet and is dried out before it's sold.

Hmmmm but the one thing I can’t work out is why was the package shipped from my hometown TO Canada and then returned back ??? The substance felt like washing powder (through the packet I obviously didn’t open it )

Unless of course the package was never supposed to be returned so my address was put randomly as the return address assuming it would never be sent back ?

Yes, it will definitely be this.

If people are selling something illegal/embarrassing/scammy through the post, they will often put a random return address on the package so it can't be traced back to them if it's intercepted. Obviously if it arrives at its destination, the person whose address they used will never find out. But if it gets returned for some reason from its intended destination then obviously upon being returned, it ends up with the person whose address was used by the sender and - understandably - really freaks them out.

People who do this usually pick an address in their hometown because if they chose an address somewhere too far away, it would make the scam a lot more obvious if/when the package was traced. They have to choose an address reasonably close to the post office they've used to send it, to make it plausible.

Very mysterious.

Is the substance being analysed? Unfortunately these days there's such a lot of substances of abuse it could be anything.

It might even be washing powder - maybe someone had a visit from back-packing Canadian friend and posted them the little bits of stuff they left behind - odd socks, a hat, and some washing powder.

A mischievous and vaguely agitprop outfit might decide to annoy the worlds law enforcement by randomly posting sachets of sherbet to innocent (although if it's done at random it will catch some wrong'uns) people around the world creating a mass hysteria and potential meltdown of police the world over.

Already we know how UK police are paralysed by pronouns. Having to deal with hundreds of hoax (or are they ?) packages could be the last straw.