UK Border Force agents intercepted a package arriving from Holland which contained an estimated 6,000 Ecstasy tablets disguised as sweets, a court heard.
It went to a woman's address in Stotfield Road, Bilborough.
Ahmadalkhatin Alama, who lived on the same street, had arranged with the local resident to collect them from her address when she was out.
By the time he had gone to collect the package it had been emptied of the drugs but border officials allowed it to continue on its journey in February last year.
It was delivered to the woman's address but she left before the delivery.
"The defendant went to the house to accept it," said Samuel Skinner, prosecuting at Nottingham Crown Court.
"He waited for and took delivery of the package and took it back to his address and officers arrested him and seized the package from his porch."
The total weight of the package was just under three kilos and would have potentially been worth £68,260, if sold in deals.
Alama, 22, of Stotfield Road, Bilborough, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the evasion of prohibition/restriction on the importation of MDMA, a Class A drug.
He pleaded guilty on a basis, which was accepted, of being aware the package contained drugs but ignorant as to the type of drug and quantity and assumed it was likely to contain strong cannabis.
Text messages were found between Alama and the woman to show it was a delivery they both knew about and the defendant was the intended recipient of the package - which was not addressed to the householder but in a different name all together.
Alama was in communications with a man who arranged for the delivery.
Alama and the woman arranged for Alama to be at her place when she was out so the delivery would not be missed.
He told police he was taking delivery of a Valentine's gift for someone.
James Horne, mitigating, said: "This was, in my submission, an isolated incident as far as importation is concerned".
Judge John Burgess, who jailed him for four years, of which he will serve half, said he is a young man of 22 and he had never been in trouble before.
"You are in trouble now as a result of an incredibly stupid act," he added.
"The trafficking of Class A drugs is regarded as extremely serious, because it is extremely dangerous. You were partly responsible for the importation of three kilos of MDMA.
"That might have been as much as 6,000 tablets. It is accepted yours was a lesser role. It is accepted you would receive and pass on these drugs".
A proceeds of crime application and confiscation timetable has been arranged at a later date.
* No evidence was offered against the householder and a not guilty verdict recorded.
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