[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)
|
| 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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