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Posted on 09/24/2022 6:56:10 AM PDT by euram
They’ve been photographing all mail for years. Probably started so they could track down dangerous mail and drug-related stuff.
The government cannot resist the temptation to misuse any data that they collect. And so they are now using it to identify and monitor biden’s enemies.
They weren’t stopped when we found out that all phone calls are intercepted and scanned. They didn’t stop when we found out that Facebook and other social media scan and monitor anything that anyone posts or sends on their platform.
So it’s only natural to expect that they would use the USPS to ferret out those evil Trump supporters.
Just another little side effect from our War On Terror.
Is this throught the post office?
Interesting,
Nothing to see here, just move along..
The OLD model: "Snail Mail" hard copies of information hand-delivered by uniformed public service employees.
The NEW model: It's all "Mail", whether it's on paper or electronic. E-mail, Texting, Instant Messaging, it's all "MAIL" now, administered and monitored by the USPS. How you buy "stamps" - that is the fee for each transaction - still to be determined.
Of course, ballots are "MAIL" too.
There was a one-season reality show, “Hunted,” where 2-person teams of ordinary folks tried to outsmart the FBI, US Marshalls, etc., and not be found for several weeks. I think there were 9 teams and 2 made it through to the end. Law enforcement got on the trail of one team through the mail. The show showed how mail is scanned. LE asked for a list of the mail being sent by family and friends and in checking out those addresses was able to find a location where one of the teams had been hiding, but that team had already moved to a new location. It was very interesting seeing the various methods LE used, and seeing how people’s habits (like a love of Taco Bell) would be what led to their being found.
“In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.”
“If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization. Additional cuts in service and privatization would be devastating for millions of postal workers and customers.
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The government pulled numbers - and a methodology - out of thin air to pass the bill. The USPS had always been an independent agency. Now the ‘independent’ part is on paper only. The idea of an actual independent body is offensive to the Derp State/intel/surveillance apparatus. (Hasn’t the U.S. come a long way!). We can now expect to see the USPS as a regular player in the spoon-fed media narratives, especially those relating to elections.
“Adopt generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP accounting as set forth by the Financial Accounting Standards Board) for determining USPS liabilities”
“USPS mandated post-retirement health care reserves must be based on “actual vested liability,” not on “total projected liability” as they are now. This is the difference between allowing a credit card holder to pay the charges they accrue each month, rather than requiring them to create a holding account for all of the expenses they expect to charge over a lifetime.”
“Basing the mandate on earned and vested benefits, rather than the hypothetical formula currently in place, would reduce USPS’s accumulated retiree health fund deficit by $41 billion.
What this amounted to was a strong-arm by the government via Congress to get the postal service to play along with government/intel/surveillance state shenanigans. The USPS held out until this year. They caved because they didn’t have a choice.
House Passes Bill to Repeal 'Debilitating' USPS Prefunding Mandate
Government/Intel: The Biggest Crime Syndicate The World Has Ever Known.
“… gun rights activists in Virginia …”
I am a member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League,
so I am surely on the Post Office watch list. They haven’t interfered with any mailing from them, but they’re compiling a list, I’m sure.
I am shocked I tell you, just shocked. Well not really.
Lots of totalitarian infrastructure put in place the last 12 years...
ping
I had breaks between the paragraphs!
Honest Injun!
And Bernie, et al, want a government agency just like this to handle our healthcare.
GOD FORBID!
Nothing to see here, move along, move along (sarc)
The most dangerous game; people not only want to be right, they want the others to hurt and suffer.
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