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USPS Spies

July 22, 2024
Does your mom open your mail? Well, she’s got nothing on USPS’s law enforcement branch.
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The Washington Post found that USPS has approved thousands of requests for authorities to spy on Americans’ letters and packages.

The Postal Service officials “rarely say no” to law enforcement requests to inspect...
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You know what I feel?
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We have talked to our parents sister.
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They, they keep opening our mail and just like they go
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I go but it's already all ripped.
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Like no, this has to stop.
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Yeah, I mean,
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like my mom, she literally opened my mail yesterday.
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I mean, it was a bill but at least pay for
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it. Whoever saw it first.
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Yeah, but then Tambien.
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Ok. So it's my state farm insurance bill,
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right? She was her little excuse.
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Oh, it's because I thought it was mine because we both
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have state farm. But your name is Jennifer.
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That's what I'm saying.
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You gotta read, girl,
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you gotta read, at least in my defense.
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My dad's name is exactly the same and sometimes they don't put
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junior online. So I'm like,
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ok to La Paz.
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But anyways, so apparently the reason I bring this up is
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because the U SPS has been approving thousands of requests from the
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FBI to spy on our letters and packages.
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So while we're like,
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you know, mad at our parents were opening our mail,
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these guys are already doing it.
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Oh snap, allegedly.
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So the postal service rarely say no to authorities inspecting mail sharing
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tens of thousands of letters and packages since 2015.
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So fy, I mom,
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you're working for the Fed.
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But like, it's crazy because again,
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our malls we know it's coming and they're gonna check our mail
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It's a given.
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But I wonder how regulated this,
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like, inspection thing is from the,
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you know, the government side because do they just check everything
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Like, do they see,
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like, when I order inappropriate things?
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Not that I do.
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But I don't know,
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like, remember Adam and eve.com,
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did you ever order anything from that?
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What's Adam and eve.com?
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Is that? No,
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no, I just,
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I just said, I don't even know if that exists,
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I think. But Adam and eve.com was a website for adults
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and you can order,
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you know, toys and lingerie,
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I think. And so imagine the game,
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like you're like, you're only like,
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self conscious about ordering stuff and they're like,
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like, so to see it and then like every other.
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Yeah. Huh. But again,
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at least it wasn't your mom.
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I don't get embarrassed with that kind of stuff.
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I got mine at Target and it just went through the little
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conveyor belt. Like I don't care.
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So. No. Yeah.
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So apparently, like these investigations usually include like a theft or
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like contra brand like narcotics or even bombs.
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But yeah, apparently the U SPS is doing this to
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protect Americans. I think they're being cheese muscles maybe.
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But also they're being kind of like snitches in a good way
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Right. Apparently,
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according to a report that their inspection services of their,
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of our mail has been,
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resulting in convictions in 2022 they had a 94% conviction
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rate. So they trusted their hunch with these mail packages and
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I guess it paid off,
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you know what, maybe our moms should apply for the U
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SPS. She would like flourish in that job,
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like official. Like,
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what's your, what's your job title?
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I'm a mail Cheese Mosa or something.
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Like, what do you package cheese Mosa?
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But I feel like that would be good for them.
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You know what I'm gonna see how they can apply.