[HN Gopher] USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans'...
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       USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans' social media
       (2021)
        
       Author : davisr
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2025-10-01 18:36 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.yahoo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.yahoo.com)
        
       | cwmoore wrote:
       | Some preventative traffic routing for efficient deliveries makes
       | sense. Otherwise ominous.
        
       | propaganja wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | _alternator_ wrote:
         | It was published in 2021... is this a conspiracy that somehow
         | it's been kept off hacker news for 4 years?
         | 
         | More likely you just didn't notice when it was published.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | (2021)
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       | Some discussion then:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892180
        
       | crmd wrote:
       | 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.
        
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