My daughter recently bought a new stethoscope from a US supplier, and then had NZ Post’s YouShop service send it on to us … no problem there.

The parcel arrived today, and along the top was some tape saying “ … le Opened by USA war …”.  No objections to the contents being inspected, but what was is the full message?  I assume the first letters ‘le’  are the end of ‘article’, but what could the last three be part of viz. ‘war’?  There is a partial next letter showing and is curved, so not another ‘r’ to mean ‘warrant’ … and in any case if a search warrant was involved, under US law a copy must accompany the released item.  Certainly not ‘warning’, so what other appropriate words begin ‘war’?