Soon Canadian Customs will simply confiscate (personally acquire) ALL knives entering. Because, really, no one ever really NEEDS a weapon (tool) more dangerous than a fork with a cork. [emoji23].
Man, I really feel for you. But stupidity is not limited to customs. Just recently in Utah, there were some random reports of people not getting some mail that they were expecting. We're not just talking about junk mail, but legal documents, utility bills, etc. Misdirections happen all the time, and they were all simply dismissed. Then one day a woman noticed a mail truck next to an open dumpster. She thought he lingered longer than it would take to toss garbage from lunch, so she decided to take a peek. What she found was the dumpster nearly full of mail and packages. According to the news report I watched, they estimated into the thousands of individual pieces in two dumpsters side by side. And since the reports to the post office were spread out over time, it wasn't an isolated incident. And so it goes, wherever you have power with little to no oversight and accountability, you will find corruption.
Call me crazy, but I would bet, in comparison , postal workers around the world have a high rate of very nice knives in their pockets, as compared to the average Joe.
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