Thirteen cards containing a total of 300 grammes of cocaine were yesterday discovered at the Guyana Post Office Corporation during two routine checks by officials from CANU, Customs and the post office.

This newspaper was reliably told that around 9 am eight US-bound sympathy cards containing some 200 grammes of cocaine were discovered while another five containing a total of 100 grammes were found in the afternoon.
Stabroek News understands that the eight cards were dropped into the mail box at the Post Office sometime between 11 am and 4 pm on Monday and the two discoveries together constitute the largest find in any one day.
It is unclear where the other five were destined but the cocaine they contained was valued at $80,000 or U$5,000 once they had reached their destination.

Efforts were made to locate the senders of the mail but no one has yet been apprehended.

The newspaper was told that the addresses were false as when officers inquired about persons by the name listed, they were not living there.

The drugs were wrapped in plastic.

The value of this latest find is estimated to be $160,000 and about US$5,000 if it had reached its destination.

Two weeks ago CANU and Customs officials intercepted a total of six postcards continuing cocaine which together weighed about 60 grammes. The media was told that it had a local value of $48,000 and if it had reached its destination, Holland, the value would have been seven times higher.

The cocaine destined for Holland was wrapped in plastic and flattened and placed inside the cards. In the first case the parcels were almost the size of the cards while in the others they were very small.  No one was arrested in connection with those cocaine-in-mail discoveries.