I don't have any social media accounts so how are they spying on me? Yes you read that correctly I don't have a Facebook, Instagram tick tock or any other accounts I do have a RU-vid account but I only watch videos that interest me I don't post anything
They also monitor what mail you receive. Because if they thought someone could get in touch with you, then the post master might have a problem. In which case ....awhh, who the hell am I kidding. There is no case. Lol. Humph
They should truly figure out the systemic issues which cause packages to get stuck in Miami and Chicago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xLqYCZH4eT4.html This has been going on for years.
RU-vid SEARCH: Dumping of Republican ballots by mail carriers I don't think the spying on the Americans by the Post Office under Joe Biden needs to be very sophisticated to work. All they need to know is if the person at a certain address is more likely to vote Republican or Democrat.
VIDEO: Joe Biden brags about having “the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history. RU-vid SEARCH: Dumping of Republican ballots by mail carriers. Joe Biden was brazen enough to brag about his extensive and inclusive voter fraud when he was interviewed by his radical left cohort at a website called CROOKED MEDIA. The news that the Post Office is now involved in the spying of Americans means the ballot dumping can be done more extensively and inclusively in the next election. Even though Joe Biden continues Obama's lie of Global Warming, he was honest when he bragged about his voter fraud being extensive and inclusive.
On a related subject, in 2019, about a year after we moved in the house, i decided to put can lights in the ceiling of our living room. While the installation was going on the mailman came to the door with a package and rang the doorbell. I noticed he was looking in through the window when i answered. I didnt think much of it, except maybe he was nosy. Until 2 days later when 2 people from the county assessors office showed up and wanted to look at the house. Coincidence? I don't think so! Thx for all your work Steve! Appreciate ya
Nope they can't assess the value from the road, they use comparable houses in the neighborhood, or after a construction project they come to the house to assess it. Which is what happened in this case. However they would not have known unless someone informed on me, which was the point in the first place.
I suspect that it’s a loophole: other Federal agencies might be explicitly prohibited from doing this by law, likely as a result of abusive behavior in the past.
That is what I was thinking about. I believe most of the actual federal law enforcement agencies are forbidden from doing this. So they contacted the USPS to dig in.
Yeah that’s what I thought. It’ll be NSA or FBI or some other federal branch will run some sort surveillance program scanning the internet under the authority of the post office because they have some additional power by doing it. Then they voluntarily hand over the information to the agency that wanted it in the first place.
@Gare Reeve Don't be naive in thinking that the other federal agencies would worry about if it's legal to spy on the Americans without legitimate reasons. Snowden is still in exile in Russia for exposing the illegal spying of Americans by federal agencies.
@cqxmrvcoyI'm not convinced that the federal agencies worry about the consequence of spying on the Americans illegally at all. In fact they even admit it on the internet that they are spying on the Americans. How? Let me explain.
I know that people search sites used to carrying true information. The search was free and it did not provide private sensitive information. But lately, I found out that many of the people search sites have turned rogue for profit and for being used as a political tool.
They do…they use what they call CDI units who are contracted individuals who basically stalk and harass ss recipients…especially those on disability…they are contracted so the ss admin isn’t responsible for their conduct or misconduct…but also…they have restricted ss recipients from owning firearms as well
Same. Signed up for twitter and facebook when they were new and immediately started feeling uncomfortable about it.... Like what is this all for? Why would i want to share my life online? Everyone trying to brag about how fun and exciting their lives are, how awesome their bland boiled chicken is... So i closedmy accounts about a year later, it was silly BEFORE the ranting and raving of politics and virtue signalling took hold and it was still silly. The only reason i wish i had an account is to go to groups discussing a topic, and i hear people like selling things on marketplace... But i still don't want to do it because of the company. This is the closest to social media i get.
@Jonny Nimble RU-vid SEARCH: Dumping of Republican ballots by mail carriers I think the leftist controlled post office is only interested to know if you are more likely to vote Republican or Democrat when they spy on you. That's not difficult at all if they know what you like to watch.
@@agenericaccount3935 that is the truth. Special is the word, it really is a shame all of that money wasted for so many years . three days for a letter from China 3 weeks Vancouver to Kelowna 4 hours away
I just remembered the intro to The Naked Gun, where Detective Frank Drebbin fought off PLO terrorists, Madia Hit squads, etc.- only to flee from Post Office Commandos. Wonder what else the boys in baby blue are up to?
the post office is a dinosaur at this point. we just don't really need it. there was an episode on seinfeld where kramer wanted to completely cancel all mail service to his name and address indefinitely. he wanted to opt out. newman got wide eyed and explained to him that he can't do that. that he NEEDS the USPS. kramer then explains to him why he doesn't need them and newman starts pouring with sweat and nervously gives him a veiled threat to the tune of "you don't want to go down this road, kramer". of course this episode was either before the internet, or in its very infancy. who could have imagined that the e-mail, paperless bill pay, etc would decrease the post office's revenue so much over the next 20+ years? the post office has went from letter courier to parcel/shipping company to survive and amazon has helped, but the writing is on the wall and now the u.s. gov't is pumping tax payer money into a failed business model just to prop it up. i think the spying operation is more of an excuse to give the post office money so that they can stay in business. the only use, i believe, that the post office has is to deliver certified mail to prove someone received something for legal purposes. otherwise, e-mail, e-pay, and private shipping companies have everything covered. the post office is just a wasteful, money burning operation at this point.
@@wesleyhempoli5548 the post office was written into the Constitution for a reason. Government services aren't a business, they don't have to be profitable. That being said, the postal service can be profitable if they were allowed to hire competent people instead of quota hires and if Congress would stop hindering their operations.
Last year a postal employee opened a package addressed to me, and stole a pistol from the package. Because the resealed package was still delivered, the Postal Inspector Service declined to investigate the theft. They don't have time to look for a firearm one of their employees stole, but they have time to read people's on line postings. Very interesting.
@@thebosscatman7 what has Insurance got to do with it or not ,3the point is their employees stole and they would not investigate it seems to me you're more like Forrest Gump
@@thebosscatman7; I was not the sender. The sender had under insured it, but he made up the difference. The problem was not the monetary loss, it was the fact that the Postal Service didn't want to take the time to find out which one of their employees was a thief.
Absolutely NO chance someone on the shipping end sentSENT an empty package?? The PO employees are usually too busy to open all the packages. How do they know which ones have a valuable pistol in them?-Pretty far fetched idea, but do you suppose the PO has ever had a claim from a recipient trying to scam money out of them?-Prob a conspiracy amongst PO employees, PO inspectors, and the American Society of Pawn Shops, maybe with ATF mixed in. You just can't trust ANYBODY!!
@@heymakerphd1982; you have no idea what you are talking about! The package had 6 pistols in it when it was shipped, and someone at the Post Office cut the package open and removed one of the pistols. When the Post Office delivered the package to me, it was still open, but only had 5 pistols. Because the package was in fact delivered, the Post office closed the case.
@@mikerevendale4810 Makes me think of federal phone service taxes. I believe that I heard it was to be a temporary measure, but then continued for many, many years. Perhaps, still in effect today? I'm not sure.
That's why it's a good strategy to say something crazy once in a while, like Steve Martin's old joke. "I want a million dollars, a getaway car, and the letter M stricken from the english language."
Actually, if they have stayed within the scope listed above, then everything is strictly with the arena of "Public Information". Unless encrypted, EVERYTHING you do on the internet is done in the public domain. Even emails are technically public domain if they are not encrypted (unencrypted email are legally deemed to be postcards for the purposes of who may read them). So for anyone to watch what others are doing on the internet, is no different than say sitting in a large shopping Mall and carefully watching what everyone is doing. It is all being done in general view of the public, and therefore a matter of public record. Most of our lives are public, not private. Even these comments are public. This is why children are taught to speak with care. We are all liable for our actions, and both speaking and writing are actions. While as a USA citizen, one has certain rights under the 1st Amendment, those rights only pertain to actions between the government and the citizen, and not to any relationship between individual citizens or other organizations (e.g. corporations, religious groups, etc.). I am not saying that what ICOP is doing is a good thing. Rather, I am saying that if they remain within the stated scope, it would be difficult to find their actions illegal, as they are already perfectly legal for virtually everyone. For example, when Congress asked Facebook how they could make a profit by giving their service away for free, the then sole owner replied, "We advertise." Facebook has always, and still does, legally collect aggregate user data, public domain user data, and with your consent, personal user data in huge quantities. This can then be analyzed to provide specific information as to what consumers want, what they buy, what they read, and their various opinions. With roughly 0.5 Billion people either directly or indirectly represented by Facebook, the resulting analysis for a given question is generally 99.999999+% reliable. So if the question is, "What is the size of my target market, and what portion can I expect to capture?" for say a widget maker in NY who doesn't want to ship outside her state, the expected answer would be precise enough not only to determine if the venture would be worthwhile, but also to determine the initial number of units required and the production rate required to make the business viable. Facebook sells both the raw data and an analytics service to those who wish to use them and can afford them. So they make billions in profit by providing extremely accurate and reliable advertising data. All of which is either public domain or explicitly authorized collection (the latter being voluntarily required in order to have a Facebook account -- and why I choose not to have one).
In all the time since the Net came into existence, I've not been able to figure out: If I were really up to something, something serious, why in blazes would I be discussing it on the Internet? It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with some alternatives.
@@S_Roach Good point. I'm kind of assuming that, in most such situations, recruiting co-conspirators is much less of a problem than controlling them. But then, what do I know? This is one area of life where I have essentially zero experience.
Yet how many people who stormed the Capitol were caught from social media posts? We're not talking about MENSA candidates here. It doesn't have to be your posts that sink you either. You could be in the background of someone else's pictures.
@@Punko1969 Well, right. We're very fortunate that criminals tend to be tripped up by their own foolishness. The very traits that lead them to criminal activity are their downfall. They don't think through the consequences. They don't use cognitive empathy. They run their mouths. They think with their egos-or with their glands. And a high IQ isn't always protective. Sometimes smart people are just very clever in justifying their follies.
They have been READING and EDITING mail since WWI. In the name of Operations security (OP SEC) they did it to service men and women overtly. They would block out with black ink certain names, addresses and sensitive information. It is why overseas personnel have APO addresses that are then forwarded. It keeps us safe and in some ways anonymous.
Is is possible that this is some sort of jurisdictional work-around? The post office poking around in places where the usual alphabet agencies don't have the authority?
Why do I now have images of a mail van, smashing through empty cardboard boxes, fruit stalls, charging up a person at a mail box. Then driver jumping out, shouting STOP US MAIL, stapler at the ready?
The postal office also takes a picture of all mail that is delivered to your address. It is called Informed Delivery if you sign up for it. Each day I get emailed a picture of all mail and packages that are going to be delivered to my address.
I discovered that enhancement a while back. Fascinating....I had no idea they imaged all the mail. Now they and the neighbors who get my mail all know what was mailed to me.
I've had my mail read all through my youth and early 20's. All during the Cold War. Mom and dad had interesting careers in confidential type work for decades overseas (Think of Jason Bourne marred to a stoic, hard as granite woman, both in a passionate relationship with each other, and parents of what proved to be truly exceptional chikdren. Dad's a legend). One friend, that is now a lifelong friend, allies of different countries, used to send "coded" messages and bits of celluloid film under stamps, give each other off ranks and titles, set traps to see if we're had our mail read, great fun messing with the mail service between Bulgaria and West Germany. Yes, we had our mail read. Lol! I also my mail read in East and South East Asia. As for e-mails, send a message back and forth between your accounts. I've increased my educational standing quit a bit, extended my internation travels, been promoted to higher levels and on do many special operations and jobs. Any actual "interesting work" I "may" have done overseas was over 40+ years, spending a career in the fire & rescue service near DC, now retired. I've worked for local, state and Federal Governments, as well as private industry. I don't trust the Government any further than I can throw it: which isn't far since I have a broken back. Lol! All postal services behind the Iron Curtain and Bamboo Curtain during the Cold War (still in Russia, most of the Middle East and all of the still existing Bamboo Curtain) monitor and read your "private" mail, to and from. Expect it. If I anything really private to, I say it in person. I expect everything I right to be recorded and kept somewhere. You should expect it. I personally don't care a fig about it. It does concern me that going through our messaging, postal or e-mail, is being done in a free society. Or, are we free? Anything sent through the USPS has to be flagged only is a warrent is issued or a critical matter is found. Do, within the law, you might consider messing with the USPS. Be careful: bring "red flagged" or put on a list could ruin your life.
"Going Postal" is an old saw about postal employees losing their mind and taking "rash" actions. I suspect this ICOP program started as internal monitoring that expanded as gov programs are fond of doing. Maybe, it is now a profit centre feeding data to other agencies.
They don't like people reciprocating ..walk into a post office and wave your own camera around, the people behind the counter have you on the next plane to gitmo...youtube is full of that..
There's a video on RU-vid of a First Amendment auditor in a PO videoing. They prohibited it & told him to leave. Even though rules posted on the PO's own wall allowed it. He sued & got PAID!
@David Bryant Silverthorne, Colorado. Photographer that calls himself Ammaganset Press....the local police came in and removed him..he took legal action against the town and received a settlement.
@David Bryant It's not debatable. Postmasters have been caught on camera with multiple auditors admitting that the official policy of the USPS is the same as that of any other public building. Photography and video in public areas is permitted. I've watched probably 500-1000 audits inside USPS branches, and it's the rarest of exceptions for the auditor to be removed. And in most of those cases, after the auditor calls someone higher up at the USPS, they get to return to the very same post office they were removed from and record all they want. The trespasses don't seem to stick. This indicates to me that you are wrong.
@David Bryant First of all, poster 7 is not valid law, nor is it above the First Amendment. It's just rules, not law. Just because a government entity posts something on the wall doesn't mean it is lawful, or supersedes constitutional rights. Secondly, once again, high level postal officials have admitted on telephone and camera that the official policy of the USPS is pretty much identical to the policy of other government entities and public buildings. Photography and video is permitted in public areas and lobbies. Of course, you can cry all you want about it, but it's not going to change anything.
I get my meds from the VA and have lived at the same address for the past decade. A month ago I got a call from the VA Pharmacy asking me if I had moved. I said no. They said that a package they sent was returned. I get notifications on packages when they are shipped, path, and delivery. I got none. The package was marked insufficient address and forwarding order expired. I filed a complaint. My local post office told me that it was never scanned in my local yet the computer said it was. They could not figure out what had happened. I have meds that are time sensitive as they need to be refrigerated which I am glad that the VA uses UPS Overnight for them. Rev George
I am reminded of the scene "The Simpsons Movie" where one guy of 100s sitting in front of monitors yells out something like, " hey, I actually found someone!"
Hey Steve, WOW 😳 what a great idea. Can we get the Post Office to go through our mail too? I would like all unnecessary junk mail to be filtered out. What next? Can the Post Office monitor my home security cameras and let me know when someone they don’t like walks near my home? Thanks DeJoy for turning the Post Office into the PIA.
Why am I not surprised? Because I was working at an ISP when the feds came in installed a box on our network designed to monitor the traffic of specific targets, though it could presumably sniff everything on the network. We weren't given a choice, they handed us a warrant and made us help install the device. The device was essentially a dedicated protocol analyzer as far as we would tell and was code named "Carnivore" if memory serves. They were commonly installed at ISPs back in the late 90s and early 2000s... remember those emails grandma sent you from AOL? The FBI probably still has all her recipes ;-) We tried to go to court to have it removed or to have them pay colocation fees for power and BW but the case was thrown out and our legal team was essentially told to go pound sand because of "national security" concerns.
"My stepdad, who worked for the Post Office, used to say that he wouldn't just sit and stare out the window all morning, because then he wouldn't have anything to do in the afternoon."
If you were a buffoon, would you rather play columns or deliver mail? Makes total sense to me.......have you paid attention to the employees - they move slower than molasses in the post office with only one helping customers while others talk in background......OMG - maddening!
' I-cop ' the sequel to Kevin Costner's greatest movie The Postman ( besides Waterworld ) is postmarked to be delivered on time to theaters soon. Sheena
And it's interesting that is "right-wing" and not everybody, right? It makes somebody who is neutral feel like there is an agenda, I wonder how the "right-wing" feels?
The post office had almost every employee over 65 retire because of covid. You can train a new employee in 6 months to a year but it takes about three years for them to become fast and accurate. Even where an experienced carrier changes routes it takes a while for them to figure out the fastest way to do it. It is not reinventing the wheel it is every person has a brain that works a little bit differently . I was a carrier for 27 years, no two people do it exactly the same. Just as some of us are left handed and some right handed.I trained one on one brand new carriers off the street. We had three days for them to learn a route between 16 miles long and 160 miles long. Sort mail for 1200 families or 250 families. Sort 5000 pieces a day or 750. It takes time and covid did not give us time. If you want a great job that pays well and are willing to work physically and mentally hard everyday, go on line and check for post office jobs. There are openings all over the country for clerks who sort mail, mailhandlers who get it from the truck to the clerks and then back to the carriers. You do not need a ged just pass PO written test. No upper age limit just 18 and up.
Wellll... After the Loyalty Check on the National Guard in DC and some having suspicions about the various police departments there, a thought occurred to me: The Post Office is paranoid about their own employees. THAT'S who they're worried about. The phrase "Going Postal" probably gives them nightmares.
Currently I have little confidence in my post office. At least once a week there's a mass exchange of mail between neighbors. So- bring it! Their incompetence is LEGEND.
Steve as a retired Postal worker I can tell you without doubt that the USPS does not have the time nor resources to troll through social media. They ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DEPT the only time we were considered federal employees was when it fit the federal government agenda. The reason your mail service has gone to hell in a handbasket is because they are replacing full time union employees when they retire with part time unvetted nonunion workers for a third of what full time employees were earning.
On mail slowing down end of last year was due to shear volume and staff shortage due to covid. Plus the Post Office cannot refuse service like UPS and FedEx. Several people told me their company had to switch to the Post Office because Ups and FedEx started refusing deliveries. The Post office had a record package delivery this last Christmas with over a billion deliveries.
When I go into my local post office and one lady is working behind the counter while eight or more people are in line--so that they can increase their law enforcement staff to spy on our social media activity--yep, makes sense!
This makes perfect sense for those whose goals are to obscure or shift intelligence expenses from the federal budget. Remember the Post Office is not part of the Federal budget. From their perspective it it is a win/win because it shifts those financial burdens onto the Post Office. This will make it even easier to claim the Postal Service is mismanaged and needs to be privatized. This might also give the intelligence agencies plausible deniability when they get a foia request.
I stopped using the post office when the busybody Karen staff kept giving me a hard time with weights and labels... I Use collection couriers and unmanned post boxes only
I remember that episode of Seinfeld where Cramers fighting the post office and says everyday a uniformed member of the federal govt visits your house. But I'm not paranoid.
I just came across a post office employment ad on indeed, and among the long list of the usual mail delivery responsibilities cited... "conducting surveillance" was thrown in the middle of the list. No joke look it up! Just slipped in there casually like its part of the normal responsibility of a mail carrier. Wow.
One of my friends worked for the USPS in Cleveland for many years. He was ordered to report the names and addresses of everyone who received baby chicks or ducks in the mail. They were keeping a list of private individuals who kept poultry and sending it to the USDA. The U.S. govt. has attempted multiple times to make it either illegal or impossible for private citizens to keep poultry to raise their own meat and/or eggs; with excuses ranging from protecting commercial poultry operations from diseases (carried by wild birds that are not physically kept out of those commercial buildings), through saving your children from salmonella infection (found in commercial poultry eggs and NOT in home flock eggs) to preventing a hypothetical deadly-to-humans bird flu epidemic. Control the food supply and you control the population.
All the rabble rousers: we will be meeting four times a year. Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Easter. Your local Church. We will be charging for parking on these days only.
I've never filled out change of address card when I move. When I didn't file change of address card, I stopped getting junk mail. When you order stamps online,read the fine print, they sell your information.
The PO is doing nothing that isn't already being done. What a waste. Hey USPS, did you see me say this? EDIT: How about putting back those sorting machines that the previous administration ripped out? EDIT: Maybe this is a false flag with the aim of discrediting the USPS with the further aim of privatizing it.
