Drugs packed among CDs and DVDs, sent from France, ended up at customs instead of with the buyer. The Customs Administration foiled an attempt to import narcotics through four postal parcels addressed to a single person, after intensified inspection at the Customs Post Office paid off.

The seizure is varied and concrete: 12.5 grams of methamphetamine, 20 grams of MDMA, 8 grams of cocaine, two glass vials with green plant matter, two glass pipes, and 33 ampoules of testosterone found in a later search of the home. All of it was hidden in parcels declared to contain only discs.

The way it was uncovered shows the controls worked as they should. Suspicion arose during scanning, then a mobile customs team with a drug-detection dog went on site and confirmed the presence of narcotics. A controlled delivery followed, in which the buyer - a U.S. citizen - was arrested just as he picked up the parcels.

The case is small in quantity but telling in its message. Customs officers say that even carefully hidden contents rarely stay undetected - and that's exactly what every smuggling attempt should keep in mind. A criminal complaint was filed, and the seizure was sent for forensic analysis.

One question that cases like this always raise remains: how many such parcels get through when the scanner doesn't stop at the right box? One intercepted parcel is a success; but success is also measured by how many others weren't caught.