[stefan_]

Yes, when will the USPS do something about the 0 postal workers killed from letter bombs this year, last year, the year before last, the year before last before last year, ...?

More of them are endangered by their shitbox LLV trucks catching on fire.

[filoleg]

Bombs in packages isn't the only thing that threatens postal workers that USPS is trying to protect.

For example, look at this[0]. Two people physically attacked a postal worker after accusing her of "stealing their stimulus checks"[1].

Sure, you can say that this case had nothing to do with USPS surveillance. But it just goes to show that there are plenty of serious dangers to postal workers other than just nigh-non-existent "bomb in the mail" scenarios that you seem to be fixating on.

0. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/police-make-arrest-after...

1. https://news.yahoo.com/usps-worker-beaten-michigan-alleged-1...

[_-david-_]

That has nothing to do with this issue. The article is about USPS investigating online threats. Do you really think people who are going to beat USPS workers are going to post about it online and that the USPS would be better equipped than agencies whose sole purpose is to deal with these kind of things?

If you think every postal worker should have some sort of security / police going with them on their routes that is one thing, but that is not at all what this article is about.

[filoleg]

>That has nothing to do with this issue

It addresses the comment that essentially boiled down to "why would they want this, letter bombs almost never happen", and I simply have shown other reasons for why they might want it. I wasn't addressing the article, I was addressing a specific comment.

>Do you really think people who are going to beat USPS workers are going to post about it online [...]

Yes, it does happen. People publicly post on twitter about their plans to vandalize property and such, so I don't see this scenario out of reach at all.

>[...] and that the USPS would be better equipped than agencies whose sole purpose is to deal with these kind of things?

No, but USPS would be able to use this as a clue of something brewing and make the relevant agencies aware, all while dealing with ad-hoc mitigations (e.g., if the threat seems credible on the surface, prepare tentative re-routing plans for their drivers to avoid that area, in case the agencies confirm that the threat is credible; if the agencies confirm that the threat isn't credible, everything proceeds as usual).

[_-david-_]

I agree that sometimes people do post online about committing crimes, but I do not believe USPS is better equipped than the FBI or DHS at handling it. The job of the USPS is to deliver mail. The job of the FBI is to stop crimes that will happen or find those responsible for crimes which have already been committed.

The FBI has more resources for investigating, finding, and assessing crimes. They also have additional intelligence that the USPS is not privy to. Why have an agency which has less resources and intelligence handle it? If it is a real threat the FBI can relay that information the USPS (and other agencies who operate in the area) to re-route their drivers or lock down their offices.

The USPS does not do anything so unique that it needs to a specialized investigative unit.

[jjgreen]

"In 1975, no one died, ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs

[reaperducer]

when will the USPS do something about the 0 postal workers killed from letter bombs this year

And how do you think that number became zero? Magic bomb-negating fairies?

[NavinF]

https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw