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Union Wants Mailmen To Thwart Terror Attacks
CNSNews ^ | 6/14/11 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 06/14/2011 1:09:31 PM PDT by CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) - As the United States Postal Service looks at ways to cut budgets and deal with declining revenue, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers is going against the grain by suggesting the agency should be increasing the services offered, including thwarting terrorists.

President of The National Association of Letter Carriers Fredric Rolando, has several ideas to increase the responsibility of some postal workers. Among them is to outfit postal trucks with sensors so letter carriers can thwart biological terrorist attacks, according to recent reports.

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1 posted on 06/14/2011 1:09:45 PM PDT by CNSNews
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Perhaps they could peddle buggywhips door-to-door as well.


2 posted on 06/14/2011 1:14:19 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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Start with the union terrorists.


3 posted on 06/14/2011 1:16:11 PM PDT by crosshairs (The left's hatred of Christianity has blinded them to the REAL threat which is Islam.)
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If they get their foot in this door the sensors will proliferate to spy on all the houses on the mail routes, their communications, zoning compliance stuff, etc.


4 posted on 06/14/2011 1:17:29 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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When they get their foot in this door the sensors will proliferate to spy on all the houses on the mail routes, their communications, zoning compliance stuff, etc. This has to be some bureaucrat's "why didn't we think of this before?" moment.
5 posted on 06/14/2011 1:19:08 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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These bums can’t deliver the mail in my district; over fifty non delivery days since 1 jan, 2011. They sure are not going to fight terrorism.


6 posted on 06/14/2011 1:23:55 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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Have we really sunk so low as a national power that our National Defense is being delegated to...

Cliff Clavin?

I weep for the future...

7 posted on 06/14/2011 1:25:03 PM PDT by NorCoGOP (Obama's approval ratings: so low that Kenyans now accuse him of being born in the USA)
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This is exactly the same thing the fire department did when faced with decreasing amounts of fires: go out on car crash calls. Because you know when you have a car accident, you’ve got to to roll a pumper truck.


8 posted on 06/14/2011 1:25:49 PM PDT by steel_resolve
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Excellent idea: the carriers could administer really, REALLY nasty paper cuts; force the bad guys to sort the mail by hand, crippling them; send them out on foot routes carrying the Sears catalogue....

There are all sorts of possibilities!


9 posted on 06/14/2011 1:26:24 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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“with sensors so letter carriers can thwart biological terrorist attacks, according to recent reports.”
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and now a vain attempt at...comedy/humour...also not their forte...


10 posted on 06/14/2011 1:27:22 PM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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Paging Cliff Claven....


11 posted on 06/14/2011 1:31:57 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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what if those same mailmen are too busy taking a dump in someone else’s backyard?


12 posted on 06/14/2011 1:31:57 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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And when George Bush suggested that mailmen should stay alert and keep an eye out for suspicious activity following 9/11...the union and everybody else went bat-shit crazy (”We’re not POLICEMEN!!!”). Unbelievable.


13 posted on 06/14/2011 1:33:27 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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to outfit postal trucks with sensors so letter carriers can thwart biological terrorist attacks

I guess that means that letter carrier in California who was taking a crap in people's yards would have to turn himself in
14 posted on 06/14/2011 1:53:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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