Cancel the PO

The Post Office continues to spy on us by photographing every piece of mail we entrust to its ineptitude. But now, “a 2014 audit … shows that … oversight protecting Americans from potential abuses is lax.”

No, really? You mean like it is at all the other bureaucracies preying on us?

The article offers several examples of said abuse, including Arizona’s infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s espionage against a political opponent. Mark Luedtke, who sent me the link, highlighted a quote from a criminal defense lawyer: he’s “troubled by the audit and the potential for the Postal Service to snoop uncontrolled into the private lives of Americans. ‘It appears that there has been widespread disregard of the few protections that were supposed to be in place’…” That leads the PO’s Inspector General (a meaningless position: these IG’s infest every agency; their offices devour our taxes as they whitewash the bureaucratic crimes with “inspections” and “recommendations” that the bureaucrats can and do flout) worries that “‘Insufficient controls could … harm the Postal Service’s brand’…”

Oh, I don’t know. I’d say the PO’s tardiness, incompetence, and ridiculously overpriced first-class stamps “harmed the brand” a long time ago.

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10:47 am on October 29, 2014