Usps 'covert Operations Program' Monitors Americans' Social Media (2021)

Insane that this is from 2021 and I've only found out about it now. The Internet is slowly but inexorably getting locked down, and the bitter reality is, there's nothing we can do to stop it.

There's something hilariously Stasi-like about a country's fucking postal service (normally the most banal and practical of all government agencies) of all things having its own psyops covert operations/law enforcement branch. Or at least, it would be funny if it weren't so insidious in real life.

Edit: And to be grudgingly fair to East Germany, even they didn't have their "Deutsche Post der DDR" conduct their own covert ops. Instead they attached the Stasi to the job. Minor difference you might say but a difference nonetheless.

(2021)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892180

This narrative reads as USPS headcount that should not exist. The question is if there are in fact postal workers doing extremely out-of-scope things, or if this is a psyop whose mission is to degrade support for USPS.

"When you control the mail, you control information."

Large scale international espionage was created by private postal services: https://www.discover-innsbruck.at/en/thurn-und-taxis-und-die... which replaced the Imperial Reichspost. Later the center of espionage (letter opening) moved from Innsbruck to Frankfurt, with the Rothschild's taken over the news business for financial benefit, and nowadays the Frankfurt and Amsterdam InterXion's.

Some preventative traffic routing for efficient deliveries makes sense. Otherwise ominous.