Union Wants Mailmen To Thwart Terror Attacks

CNSNews ^ | 6/14/11 | Eric Scheiner

[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.

[swain_forkbeard]

Perhaps they could peddle buggywhips door-to-door as well.

[crosshairs]

Start with the union terrorists.

[arthurus]

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.

[arthurus]

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.

[Lion Den Dan]

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.

[NorCoGOP]

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...

[steel_resolve]

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.

[Jack Hammer]

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!

[gunnyg]

“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...

[NewHampshireDuo]

Paging Cliff Claven....

[max americana]

what if those same mailmen are too busy taking a dump in someone else’s backyard?

[Deb]

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.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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