Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by o0-0o on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:12PM
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It is also the only agency named in the constitution. The others are all fluff. At least that’s what I was taught!
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Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by dataflow on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:46PM
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Interesting, are you sure about this? The only clause I find in the constitution mentions post offices and post roads (perhaps that's what you're thinking of?), but nothing about their security. To my knowledge federal agencies were only established by the Administrative Procedures Act after WWII (which is basically the "constitution" of federal agencies), but I'm not sure if there's other similar terminology that might be in the constitution. If someone has a link to the clause that would be interesting.
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by o0-0o on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:02PM
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Yeah buddy. The security service is just like internal affairs for the USPS. It's actually pretty creepy inside the USPS they enter through different doors, they have catwalks with two-way mirrors, etc. The SSF and DCF or whatever they're called (been a while) are super creepy to observe. You are CONSTANTLY being watch when you work there, but unseen faces. There is a reason 'going postal' became a thing. Imagine that atmosphere!
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by behringer on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:04AM
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Having worked there, you drown out the catwalks and just consider them like fancy camera monitoring. We never, ever saw law enforcement, so it was out of sight, out of mind.
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by PLenz on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:16PM
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Census is in the Constitution as well
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by dredmorbius on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:42PM
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Census as an activity is, though not a Census Department specifically. Though that may be a quibbling distinction.
Armed forces would be another Constitutionally mentioned function.
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by o0-0o on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:00PM
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Pretty the sure the Census is mostly conducted by the USPS though.
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by dredmorbius on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:41PM
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Incorrect.
Department of Commerce.
Re:The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor America...
by o0-0o on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:24PM
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Ah, good to know, and thank you. Albeit, logistically carried out in large part through the mail. Would it be safe to say that they are intertwined, and the Department of Commerce is another made up beaurocracy, and if nixed the USPS would conduct the census?