ELI5 How come pipe bombs or bombs in general thru the mail don't go off in the post offices or the truck or being delivered? Like how did the Unabomber get away with so many without going off?

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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Not looking for how to make a pipe bomb. But the jostling the movement and everything how would that not set it off?

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