I had an occasion to meet my postal carrier at a BBQ party once. She spent the entire day telling everyone about her customers and what type of mail they got.
That's why I got a private mailbox. It's far enough from my house that nobody that works there even knows me.
Of course, Budster has a point; "they can always find a paper-trail if they want to catch you."
When a "instant" credit card is used, it can be traced back to the POS, (point of sale), to an exact time of purchase. They can then use those nice little cameras in the ceiling to get a full color photo of the person who purchased it. That part is easy.
If you have them sent "To a friends house", they arrest the friend and sweat them for three days threatening to take their life away if they don't give you up....most likely, they will.
Growing Marijuana in your home is a risk. No one can discount that risk. If someone is being a pain in the butt to the cops and the cops want to take them down, the cops will cheat, steal, threaten, and bully until they get what they want.
Don't ever kid yourself that they will play by the rules. They won't.
The best bet is to stay small, stay private, use what you grow or GIVE it away to your friends.
If and when you start selling, you enter the arena of the cops. You don't want to be there.
1. Make sure your neighbors don't know and can't smell your crop.
2. Never tell ANYONE that you are growing. If you can't do it without telling someone, then just don't do it. If you tell other people, the first time one of them gets a cop in their face, they'll spill everything they know. You'll never see it coming.
3. Stay small. Cops really don't give a rats butt if you smoke weed. They do care if they keep seeing you involved with it. They catch you a couple times with it and let you go, they now have a handle on you. They'll use you like a two dollar *****. Don't get into the cops arena. You don't want to be there. Not once, not ever.
4. For those of you that think you're going to make money from weed, let me know when you get out of prison. They always get caught. Every time. Start selling and you become a cop magnet. Divide that money up between the 5 years in prison and your wage is like 25 cents a day.
5. STAY SMALL, STAY PRIVATE, STAY SMART, STAY FREE.
6. The number one method of getting busted with pot is the human mouth. It was open when it should have been closed.