Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) 247
tedlistens writes: As law enforcement investigates possible mail bombs sent to prominent Democratic Party figures and liberal activists, the tools available at their disposal include digital images and delivery metadata commonly associated with mail sent in the United States. The U.S. Postal Service regularly photographs the front and back of every piece of U.S. mail, or about 150 billion parcels, envelopes, and postcards every year. A longstanding practice known as the "mail cover" program enables law enforcement to obtain address information and images of the outsides of mail as part of an investigation without the need for a warrant through the Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Postal Service's policing arm.
According to a report from CBS News, authorities are currently using "data analytics" to spot similar packages to those identified as containing bombs. Images of packages shared with the press show a common return address, using the misspelled name of Representative and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Postal Inspection Service doesn't generally comment on its investigative techniques. As part of the mail cover program, mail is routinely digitally photographed as part of the sorting process and even available for recipients to digitally preview in some areas. Apart from threats like bombs, the department says its main focus is on mail theft, fraud, and narcotics cases.
According to a report from CBS News, authorities are currently using "data analytics" to spot similar packages to those identified as containing bombs. Images of packages shared with the press show a common return address, using the misspelled name of Representative and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Postal Inspection Service doesn't generally comment on its investigative techniques. As part of the mail cover program, mail is routinely digitally photographed as part of the sorting process and even available for recipients to digitally preview in some areas. Apart from threats like bombs, the department says its main focus is on mail theft, fraud, and narcotics cases.
USPS Informed Delivery - Kinda handy, actually (Score:5, Informative)
Go to informeddelivery.usps.com [usps.com]
Select "Sign Up For Free."
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OK, I thought I've never, ever see this happen but it looks like that site's slashdotted now. It's about as unlikely an occurrence as Sears.com melting down on Black Friday.
Re: USPS Informed Delivery - Kinda handy, actually (Score:1)
I can believe that the graybeards on slashdot can bring down a website devoted to that favorite of old people, snail mail, definitely!
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It surprises me that anyone is surprised by this. The USPS does more tracking of everything imaginable than Google, it's nearly impossible to send something of any real size anonymously. Which also surprises me that the guy sending the bombs wasn't aware of this.
Mind you someone doing what he did clearly wasn't in any rational state of mind, so I guess not knowing you'd get caught almost immediately comes with that.
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MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Surprising nobody, the person sending bombs to Democratic politicians, supporters, and media organizations is a virulently pro-Trump terrorist.
His van is covered in pro-Trump stickers, along with stickers of Democrats with gun targets on their faces.
The coverings of the terrorist's van refer to Trump's stated enemy list as well as memes shared by right wing republicans nationwide.
Is it too much to ask that Trump stop encouraging his supporters to violently attack reporters and Democrats?
Re:MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Surprising nobody, the person sending bombs to Democratic politicians, supporters, and media organizations is a virulently pro-Trump terrorist.
His van is covered in pro-Trump stickers, along with stickers of Democrats with gun targets on their faces.
The coverings of the terrorist's van refer to Trump's stated enemy list as well as memes shared by right wing republicans nationwide.
Is it too much to ask that Trump stop encouraging his supporters to violently attack reporters and Democrats?
Real bullets that actually work were shot at Republican lawmakers having a ball game. One was seriously wounded.
Was that Democrats' fault? Or was it just a lone nut?
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Democrats don't share pictures of republicans with gun targets on their face.
Republicans share pictures of democrats (including this weeks' bombing targets) with gun targets painted on their face.
So yes, when a lunatic does something that goes contrary to everything Dems stand for it's not Democrats fault. When a republican puts violent right wing memes spread by Trump and prominent republicans into action they deserve the blame.
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What exactly is "everything Dems stand for"? It seems these days they're more than happy to encourage folks to "see a nazi, punch a nazi".... and then label all their opponents as nazis.
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What exactly is "everything Dems stand for"?
I'll field this one. I'm independent but have only voted for Democratic candidates simply because no one happened to be better.
The first priority is to institute a check against the lunacy coming out of the White House. This is absolutely essential because Donald Trump doesn't think, he just spouts whatever happens to pop into his deranged brain at the moment, and because he's president, it suddenly becomes policy. Cruel, real life things, like separating children from their families and restricting rights
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Correct - Democrats create "art" with a decapitated Trump head instead. "Art" makes it cool.
Democrats also go out and violently protest, fighting police, damaging public property, and bloodying people who wear MAGA hats. But that's just because they're so passionate about freedom and democracy and stuff.
Clearly there's a single "good" team in all of this.
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Oh no, inanimate objects! That's much worse than you people feeling the need for speed towards a crowd of protesters and ganging up half-a-dozen strong on a black kid curled up on the ground. Oh, and mailing out a dozen bombs, lets not forget that. And then there was the time one of your guys blew himself up in Texas making more bombs, but on the bright side at least he killed the bad guy.
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The thread is about:
> Democrats don't share pictures of republicans with gun targets on their face
You can't keep track of the simplest concepts in front of your face, which makes other libtards look bad. Maybe the internet isn't for you.
Yes they do - and buy radioactive material to harm (Score:2)
Democrats don't share pictures of republicans with gun targets on their face.
They have done so many times.
What Democrats also do apparently is try to buy radioactive substances [tmj4.com] after telling at Republicans... instead of sending joke bombs that are not a threat.
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>instead of sending joke bombs that are not a threat.
You're so desperate to make this man seem like less of a nutjob that this is the line of thinking you're going with huh. Do I get to sit in a sniper's nest with a fake rifle on Capitol Hill or political rally because it's a "joke rifle" and "not a threat"?
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I hadn't seen that Snoop Dogg video until just now.
So, on the one hand you've got a rapper famous for smoking marijuana and saying stuff like "For shizzle" making a video where everyone appears in clown makeup and a toy gun that "fires" a tiny sign that says "Bang" is used to shoot a "Trump" clown and on the other hand we've got the actual President of the United States calling the press the "enemy of the people" and saying it's "unfortunate" that people expect him to have a coherent response to Khashoggi's
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Re:MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh no! My side had bombs sent to them.
Well, MY side was shot at! That's a hundred times worse.
My side, your side. Republicans. Democrats. Don't you think that's how we ended up where we are right now?
Repeat after me: "It is a tragedy when ANYONE is threatened or attacked and we, as American Citizens, should be appalled and angered every single time any violence happens to anyone. Everyone should feel safe TO SPEAK their beliefs and TO HEAR OTHERS speak their beliefs. No exceptions."
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How is making a graphic with a target on someone not already threatening? As other posters have said, one side is worse about this than the other. Your nice statement is double-speak. No, you should not feel safe to speak a belief that someone else should be attacked with extrajudicial violence.
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Why the fuck should I have to listen to nazis and white supremacists?
My friend, I think you are confused. I know it is a common misconception, but "everyone should feel safe [...] to hear others speak" is not the same as saying "everyone should be forced to hear others speak".
If you do not wish to listen to nazis, that is fine, you do not have to. But I for one do want to. Not because I believe in their statements, but because I want to know who the asshats are.
Re: MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:1)
Democrat here with a FOID card. Because not all Republicans are the insane parody Democrats try to make them out to be. I have many Republican friends who support the right to bear arms but who do not and will not ever own guns. And I have Democrat friends who want stricter gun ownership or flat out banning of the sale of guns any and everywhere in the US, but who also carry around tazers and friggin ice picks (of all things, and no, I don't understand why them and not pepper spray for example).
The world is
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The Democrats didn't encourage the potential bombings to happen while Trump is continuously encourages violent behavior. Remember Palin and the crosshair bullshit which led to Gifford getting shot in the head? The Republicans have a long history of inciting violence. However don't worry, cascadingstylesheet, none of this will cost the Republicans any seats in the upcoming elections, but the Dems are a bunch of unimaginative pansies who are crappy at the art of theatrics to rile up their base like the way th
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https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Re:MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
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>Meahwhile in reality,
>breitbart.com
AMAZING.
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Real bullets that actually work were shot at Republican lawmakers having a ball game. One was seriously wounded.
Was that Democrats' fault? Or was it just a lone nut?
To me, as an independent, this says- followers of both main parties are deranged idiots- but the Democrats are better at pulling off their objectives.
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Is it too much to ask that Trump stop encouraging his supporters to violently attack reporters and Democrats?
Real bullets that actually work were shot at Republican lawmakers having a ball game. One was seriously wounded.
Was that Democrats' fault? Or was it just a lone nut?
Can you cite elected Democrats who have advocated, supported or encouraged violence against Republicans since Donald Trump was elected? Please share.
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Now, she didn't *explicitly* say that Republicans should be hunted down and killed like al-Qaida and the Taliban... But what other implication are you supposed to draw? That they should be thrown in the prison at Guantánamo?
Hillary was using a rhetorical technique of equivalence there to make her opponents seem like backward fundamentalists. Republicans are actively and explicitly advocating for Democrats to be sent to guantanamo - just google it on Infowars. It's completely bonkers.
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Now, she didn't *explicitly* say that Republicans should be hunted down and killed like al-Qaida and the Taliban... But what other implication are you supposed to draw? That they should be thrown in the prison at Guantánamo?
It's very obvious she was asking voters not to vote for these Republicans, that's what campaign rallies are supposed to be about, after all. Anything more bloodthirsty is purely in your own mind.
Re: MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
That was a lone nut. We know this because he was not incited. Nobody encouraged him to be violent.
This guy was incited. Trump has specifically talked of killing people, particularly opponents. The conspiracy theories he referenced were ones promoted by Trump-backed media outlets.
You are entitled to question which incitement made the difference, who is ultimately responsible for driving him over the edge. What you aren't entitled to do is invent your own set of facts.
If you do not see any difference between the cases, I can't help you.
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Then every instance of Republicans being harassed in public is the fault of Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, and CNN.
And every instance where a Nazi harasses a Democrat by running them over with their car is Trump's fault.
But yeah sure, same thing.
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Strange, because democrats were doing this for years. Until Giffords got shot, then it was a political faux pas all of a sudden.
When a republican puts violent right wing memes spread by Trump and prominent republicans into action they deserve the blame.
No power no peace! - Hillary Clinton
Get up in their faces wherever they are. - Maxine Waters
When they go low, we kick them while they're down. - Eric Holder
Violence against patriots is collateral damage. - Nancy Polosi
Need more marching, blood and death in the streets - Loretta Lynch
And I'm only getting started. I'm also sure you think "violent rightwing memes" include pepe the f
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Nazis want to exterminate all jews. I think it's fair game to punch them. Why show them any civility?
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Now the definition of a Nazi has shifted to include.... pretty much whoever you want to punch...
For example: a bay area antifa group published a "most wanted" poster labeled "Know your Nazi". Their stretched definition of "Nazi" included figures such as Joey Gibson, a conservative agitator who publicly denounces white supremacists. Antifa sources consider Gibson guilty by association
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Joey Gibson invites groups like Identity Evropa to his rallies. White supremacists flock to him.
He surrounds himself with The Proud Boys.
I don't think it's all that extreme to think he's lying when he says he's not a White Supremacist.
Re: "Punch a Nazi" is a Call to Violence (Score:2)
Why does who you advocate copulating with warrant discussion here?
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The crapflooding has gotten really weird around here.
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Democrats do spread the "Punch a Nazi" meme.
How many people have you Nazis killed by now?
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Crazy person attacks Republican Congresspeople: blame the crazy.
Crazy person sends bombs to Democrats: blame the Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi: “How DARE anyone blame us for the actions of one mentally sick individual.”
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First of all, fuck your ableism.
Second, the person who attacked Republicans did so IN SPITE of the Democrats' non-violent ideals, whereas the person who sent these bombs did so BECAUSE of Trump's constant inciting and condoning of violence.
It's always the same, Democrats tell you that maybe you shouldn't be so racist, you respond with violence. It's just like Hillary said, there's no room for civility anymore, we aren't dealing with rational people, we are dealing with deranged animals who want to destroy s
Just one thing wrong with your statement (Score:1, Troll)
Surprising nobody, the person sending bombs to Democratic
They were not bombs - they were joke bombs. Fake Blews, as it were.
If you want to look to people trying to do actual harm to opponents, there you will have to look for the insane left as opposed to the insane right (like the baseball field shooting).
And then there's the actual harm - to the GOP (Score:3)
No bombs sent to Democrats even got close to them, or went off...
Unlike the bomb locally delivered to a GOP office [cnn.com].
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No bombs sent to Democrats even got close to them, or went off...
Oh, ok. The bomb maker was incompetent. That makes it a non-issue then.
We prefer bomb makers that have their bombs go off
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Surprising nobody, the person sending bombs to Democratic politicians, supporters, and media organizations is a virulently pro-Trump terrorist.
Apparently it came as a surprise to those who promoted it as a false flag operation [nbcnews.com] or asserted that republicans just don't do this kind of thing [thehill.com]
Re: MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Terrorising? Sorry, no. That is not enough. This was a terrorist attack. A term he is keen on using when his supporters are at risk.
He is the President of the whole country or none of it. It is not enough until he calls it for what it is.
I don't expect him to admit to lying when he said earlier that it was a false flag, when he would have already been informed it wasn't. I don't think he has the guts. He can't do anything about that.
Letting him slide on diminishing and belittling terms. No.
And I expect any American to insist he calls it for what it is, whatever side they are on. One America, indivisible, cannot allow the belittling of an attrocity.
The same is true of all attacks on all sides. I am fully aware of the attack some time ago on a Republican and his friends. That, too, was a terrorist attack. Not terrorizing, not less than. Said so then, will repeat so now.
Those Republicans who have said it was a terrorist attack, good for you. You've courage and decency.
All I ask is for false flag theorists and "terrorizing" justifiers to do the decent thing. Call it for what it is.
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"Is it too much to ask that Trump stop encouraging his supporters to violently attack reporters and Democrats?"
Is calling it a despicable act and condemning it enough? Because that's what Trump did.
Was that before or after he riled up chants to lock up Soros?
Re: MAGA Bomber!!! (Score:2)
Don't know any Democrat who has said any of that. Can you name names and offer compelling evidence?
An impartial study showing immigration by Hispanics increases under Democrat governance would suffice.
It's just metadata! (Score:1)
What, you thought metadata collection only applied to digital communication?
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The exterior of all mail is considered to be public information, including post-cards. There is no expectation of privacy.
Want to write a post-card without making the contents public? Put it in an envelope, simple as that.
USPS offers a service to "preview" your daily mail (Score:5, Informative)
It's called Informed Delivery. They email you images of what's arriving that day.
https://informeddelivery.usps.... [usps.com]
My wife signed up for it, it's sort of creepy and exciting (at first).
I would assume they image everything (at least letter sized) as part of sorting.
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My address is not available for this service...what are they hiding?
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Interesting, I thought it was generally available for letter mail.
And what are they hiding? They probably don't want to tip you off of their awareness of your untoward and tawdry mail contents...
Maybe it's only in urban areas, but they have to scan everything anyway for sorting purposes.
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It's a nice service, but in the email that they send me, every day, without fail, there is exactly one "mailpiece for which we don't currently have an image"
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Does it happen to be a bulk mail thing? Since those are presorted, perhaps they don't go through the scanner.
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You may be right. I had always read it as "one mail piece", but perhaps it should be read as "at least one".
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The other thing that I notice from this system is that mail from the UK is frequently scanned upside down.
Re:USPS offers a service to "preview" your daily m (Score:5, Insightful)
It's called Informed Delivery. They email you images of what's arriving that day.
https://informeddelivery.usps.... [usps.com]
My wife signed up for it, it's sort of creepy and exciting (at first).
I would assume they image everything (at least letter sized) as part of sorting.
I expect that this what Netflix uses to speed up delivery of DVDs. I regularly drop a DVD in the mail and Netflix will send out the next one in my queue well before the returning DVD will have made it to their wharehouse. So on one hand creepy, on the other hand faster turn around time for their service.
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Not news, just another service (Score:2)
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The postal service offers "Informed Delivery" where you can see your mail before you pick it up. From their web site: "Digitally preview your mail and manage your packages scheduled to arrive soon! Informed Delivery allows you to view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of letter-sized mailpieces and track packages in one convenient location."
The nice extension to this would be if you could mark stuff as junk, and the post office would then dump it rather than delivering it to your house.
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And also, they are in plain manilla envelopes, not shipping envelopes.
Go get a regular yellow envelope, put a "thing" in it, like an old ethernet card or whatever. Try to handle the envelope without it ripping.
Anyways
COOL CLOCK CESAR!!!!!
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All of the photos of the packages show absolutely no post marks, barcodes, cancelled postage.. Nothing.
So they say they were delivered by courier.. But couriers wont take packages with postage on them, and again.. .No shipping labels, no barcode.
So they say they were hand delivered. This guy drove up and down the coast and delivered all the packages within a few hours of each other?
How the fuck is this supposed to work.
Should I believe this goofball had a whole team working with him?
They said one package couldnt be delivered, so it was sent back to the return address.. And yet, NO FUCKING POSTMARKS ON THE PACKAGE.
None of the packages shown have ever been in the USPS system, nor Fedex, UPS, etc, etc..
What the fuck?
A little common sense reveals your hoax claim to be ridiculous.
If what you say is true, the USPS and FBI have to be in on this plot. Do you think two organizations of that size could keep this quiet if it was a hoax. Not everyone at USPS or FBI is vehemently anti-republican so this would leak. Use common sense before you post nonsense.
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It is reasonable to ask pertinent questions and expect to receive pertinent answers for a matter of this importance.
"If you don't believe the prevailing media narrative unquestioningly you must be a ridiculous conspiracy theorist" is an answer only an NPC could accept.
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I didn't say anything about "every USPS and FBI employee" being in on a plot.
A little more common sense would tell you they are all federal employees and legally bound not to disclose what happens at their workplaces.
So why not address what I actually said? You wont. You glow in the dark.
They would have to be in on the plot because any USPS worker could see what you saw and announce it. And the FBI, something as big as that would have to be quite extensively spread.
For this to be a hoax you would literally have to have the entire USPS onboard not to announce the "no stamping thing" and out it as a hoax... and probably dozens of FBI agents. Like most conspiracy theories- you'd have to be nuts to believe it.
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"NPC"? Is that supposed to be some insult to dehumanize victims to make it OK to send them bombs?
Re:How did it work, I wonder? (Score:4, Informative)
Did you see the van with the back windows platered over with stickers?
That van would not get a block before being pulled over and over and over again.
You seriously underestimate the amount of crazy shit that exists on a day to day basis in Florida.
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All of the photos of the packages show absolutely no post marks, barcodes, cancelled postage.. ... blather deleted ... ]
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None of the packages shown have ever been in the USPS system, nor Fedex, UPS, etc, etc..
What the fuck?
The fuck is that you're an uninformed idiot.
From Fact Check: 'Canceled Stamp' Conspiracy [weeklystandard.com] (a conservative opinion site, BTW):
Lastly, the premise that if a stamp is not canceled it was therefore not mailed through the USPS is incorrect. As the executive director of the American Philatelic Society, Scott English, tells TWS Fact Check, “It is possible for mail to go through the mail without being cancelled by the USPS. There are still hand-stamped packages and in other cases, a postal clerk will use a magic marker to draw a line through stamps. There is no standard throughout the country.”
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All of the photos of the packages show absolutely no post marks, barcodes, cancelled postage..
[ ... blather deleted ... ]
None of the packages shown have ever been in the USPS system, nor Fedex, UPS, etc, etc..
What the fuck?
The fuck is that you're an uninformed idiot.
From Fact Check: 'Canceled Stamp' Conspiracy [weeklystandard.com] (a conservative opinion site, BTW):
Lastly, the premise that if a stamp is not canceled it was therefore not mailed through the USPS is incorrect. As the executive director of the American Philatelic Society, Scott English, tells TWS Fact Check, “It is possible for mail to go through the mail without being cancelled by the USPS. There are still hand-stamped packages and in other cases, a postal clerk will use a magic marker to draw a line through stamps. There is no standard throughout the country.”
You're a retard. That's simply stating that sometimes there's a fuckup and the worker PHYSICALLY MISSES when cancelling or FORGETS to cancel.
Do you actually believe that somehow happened for all of these packages, at every point along the delivery?
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They were examples intended to explain away the obvious signs that this is all fake.
Yes, something can be delivered without the postage being canceled. It's very, rare. It's also much rarer for something to have NO postage marks at all. To suggest that these packages could have gone through the USPS in any normal fashion is bullshit. If we had 1, maybe. 2? There's an outside chance. But all of these? Fuck off.
As for hand delivering, nope. The narrative is that this was a lone, right-wing nut with a c
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As for couriers, nope. They generally won't take shit with postage
There exists a courier business that picks up and drops off US mail for business clients at the local post office. I see them all the time. They show up with a plastic tub full of mail and walk it up to the commercial service window. And they have keys to a half dozen PO Boxes to pick up clients' mail.
It's possible that Sayoc hired one of these people to drop packages off. Hence the reference to a courier. And I imagine that postal workers drop their guard when they see the same guy they do every day hauli
scanning does not mean tracking (Score:5, Funny)
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So, two stories about tracking packages at the USPS:
1) Earlier this year my wife and I ordered a piece of furniture on eBay (a flat-pack, DIY assembly sort of thing for some cheap storage we needed). The furniture didn't arrive on time, and the seller was unresponsive, so we initiated a dispute ten days after the original delivery date. The day that eBay was set to close the dispute in our favor by default, the seller suddenly posts a tracking number that proves the item was delivered to our ZIP code two da
It's not that nefarious. (Score:1)
If you understand how OCR scanning works, you'd know they *have* to image the envelope, look for something that vaguely looks like an address (in various positions, orientations, etc), parse it, then route it through the sorting machines, etc all within seconds. It makes sense to store those images for training the software (wait until you find out that google stores your "ok google" requests, especially ones that it can't understand and sends them off to folks who manually listen and try to discern what th
Government Conspiracy! (Score:2)
Nut: The government is spying on our mail!
Normal Person: The same people that delivered my mail to the house around the corner, and gave me mail for someone who moved 10 years ago? No way!
They Might Be Giants. (Score:2)
the post office reads the address on every piece of mail!
and they KNOW where YOU LIVE!
Best to just not have an address so they can't FIND you!
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and they KNOW where YOU LIVE!
That little box I have at the post office is getting pretty cramped.
Interesting note: The post office will deliver mail addressed to their street address and my PO box number (as if it were an apartment address).
Another interesting note: Federal law requires that I keep the post office informed of my actual residential address. Many years ago, when I moved, I went to my post office to fill out the requisite forms.
Me: "I'm moving. What form do I have to fill out to update my residential address on record
The Van ... (Score:5, Funny)
This van looks like what Steve Bannon would turn into if he was a Transformer
- Twitter
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It's weird that he still loves Trump, even after Trump fired him, called him "Sloppy Steve" and suggested that he was mentally ill.
His unrequited love is almost tragic.
Obvious False Flag Is Obvious (Score:1)
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Also none of these packages shown have ever been in the postal system, or any other tracking system. They would have to have been placed in various mailrooms by hand.
The arrested bomber's van is covered in Pro-Trump (Score:2)
The arrested bomber's van is covered in pro-Trump stickers, and violent memes spread by republicans nationwide, like a gun target painted on a picture of Hillary Clinton.
You may apologize now.
Trump should apologize for encouraging domestic terrorism.
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LOL - And the democrats who are actually encouraging civil unrest and violence even after a republican was shot at a baseball game? I don't recall any apologies there.
And honestly, earlier this month "Suspected Ricin sent to Pentagon, suspicious letters to Trump, Ted Cruz office"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u... [nbcnews.com]
How did the media respond to this? Well the New York times publishes a fictional article about the secret service and Russians assassinating Trump
Call for violence then act surprised when targeted (Score:1, Informative)
You will notice all the people sent ones were promoting violence against Republicans.
Biden - I want to punch Trump
Clinton - You can't be civil
DeNero - I want to punch Trump
Booker - Get in their face
Waters - Attack them
Obama - They bring a knife you bring a gun
Holder - They go low kick them
and on and on...
Every last person who got one was promoting violence on others. When it comes to them NOW its bad?
You will notice Pelosi and Schumer were not targeted, neither of them were promoting violence against other
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The arrested bomber's van is covered in pro-Trump stickers, and violent memes spread by republicans nationwide, like a gun target painted on a picture of Hillary Clinton.
Right. Just like any stealthy terrorist would do, lol
"There's a flag, so it can't be a false flag"
You may apologize now.
For what, wondering about yet another bizarre 11th hour thing happening?
Trump should apologize for encouraging domestic terrorism.
Which he has not encouraged. So, no.
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Damn, STICKERS? They got him! We've NEVER seen anyone try to frame shit up as being done by someone else! Certainly not the DNC!!!
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Is there any anti-Democrat conspiracy theory you WON'T believe? I used to think tin-foil hatters were just an exaggerated joke, but your posts are doing a great job convincing me otherwise. You better tighten that thing up another notch.
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Innocent until proven guilty ? How did that work out for "crooked hillary" ?
Seems like, so far, she's gotten away with multiple proven felonies (relating to her campaign, mail server, dissemination of classified information, etc.) and dozens or hundreds of others she's suspected to be directly involved with (lots of suicides with 2 shots to the back of the head, lots of staffers murdered in the night in botched robberies where nothing was taken, etc.).
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Hillary Clinton violated policy in her email handling, but the investigation concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to make a case that she committed a crime.
Now you're making things up. Quotes from Comey's statement [fbi.gov]:
"Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Also: "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor woul