At this rate, you wouldn't be surprised to find them inside specially marked packages of Frosted Mini-Wheats.
Criminal gangs have infiltrated postal delivery services across the country to intercept secretly marked packages of drugs to divert into the £200m-a-year market in bootlegged medicines, according to officials.
With it's MusicCash promotion, those who buy Coke in specially marked packages can get certificates in denominations of $3 and $5 that are redeemable at record stores all over the U.S. Therefore it's no surprise that Coke teamed up with SonicBlue, the consumer electronics maker behind the RIO line of MP3 and CD players.
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For a limited time, specially marked packages included a voucher enabling a download of the "Deimos Skin" for use in God of War III.
The film was promoted through Kellogg's, which created a website with mini-games and a movie-based video game give-away for UPC labels from specially marked packages of Atlantis breakfast cereal.
"You never get used to this system — it's completely illogical," said Laura Atlan, 22, marking packages in her mother's wholesale clothing company, Basic & Cie.
"You never get used to this system, it's completely illogical," said Laura Atlan, 22, marking packages inside Basic & Cie, a women's clothing wholesaler.
Under the law, an analog is any substance that mimics the effects of illegal drugs; producers try to dodge the law by marking packages not for human consumption.
One employee told me that when he started work at the company 17 years ago, he marked individual packages with crayons.
Crane's ruling helped transform the birth control industry, allowing condom manufacturers to sell their products openly -- they marked the packages "for the prevention of disease only" -- in drugstores, barbershops, newsstands, cigar stores and gas stations.
