I had sent the gifts originally in a box that was laying around my house. Little did I know that the box had a symbol for dangerous items. This is why isc customs sent it back as it couldn’t be shipped overseas. Yesterday, I bought an appropriate box from usps while I was there and attempted a second time to ship the gifts. A more detailed list of items was put in the second time since I didn’t want any reason for them to be rejected. But here we are. I’m going to UPS and will post an update.
I posted a comment with more context! All gifts are in a single box.
But only “mostly”? Only 10% was drugs? 
I once ordered some pet food from an ebay seller, and it arrived in this box. My wife had some questions for me.
She wanted to know if you’d be using the ribbed ones the next time…
(I’m not going to speculate on how long it would take you to get through 512 condoms.)
I have been told that you shouldn’t ship internationally via UPS, as they will charge the receiver a brokerage fee, which can be expensive. I’ve also been told (by people who regularly ship internationally) that FedEx doesn’t charge these fees.
At least 512 uses
…if you only use one side.
Yet the USPS sells overtly religious Christmas-themed stamps to affix to the address side.
My gf already has money allocated from me for such an expense, as we were also told this of USPS. Generally speaking, the reviews in my locality for UPS are somewhat better than those of FedEx
This is correct. They are prominently advertised at the checkout counters.
Just got an idea for an Advent calendar
Thanks for the best laugh I’ve had in a long time! 
To properly make a barcode unreadable, the scribble should be in the same direction as the bars so that at least one bar is totally messed up.
512? Odd number… Is that because there are 52 weeks in a year, so minus 8, meaning one less needed on holiday weeks? (Or maybe one less on school “professional development days” when the kids are home?) That would work out to… ummm…
Well, 512=2^9, so maybe the packing machine at the condom plant works on an obscure 9-bit logic?
No, Sir, it is even. In fact, as EinsteinsHund has rightly pointed out, it is 9 times even.
Sending 512 condoms would be the opposite of sending Catholic things, I guess.
Given that the people of Germany are 24% Catholic, a restriction on Catholic items would be strange.
Not surprising given Germany’s history. It wasn’t like England, but the Reformation and Counter-Reformation was poppin’. Plus it didn’t become majority Catholic until recently, because of birth rates, immigration, and especially Protestants got secularized easier. Then of course real demographics are hard to come by because many will check a box but never go to church unless there’s a wedding.
They can sure keep that Hemingway grudge alive, though, can’t they?
Wow.