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The United States Postal Service may not be a likely candidate if you’re asked to name the government agencies you think are monitoring social media posts, but it’s apparently been doing just that. According to Yahoo News, the Postal Service’s law enforcement arm — the United States Postal Inspection Service or USPIS — has been running a surveillance program called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). Analysts with the team have reportedly been trawling social media websites… Source link

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory”… Source link

Louis DeJoy became a household name last year when he, as Postmaster General, faced criticism over delays in U.S. mail, especially around the time when mail-in ballots would prove critical in the presidential election. While many of former President Trump’s allies have since moved on to think tanks or their own runs for political office or even SPACs, DeJoy remains as the nation’s Postmaster General. It’s not that President Joe Biden or other Democrats are suddenly fans of the longtime… Source link

Distressing footage has shown the moment a postal worker appeared to leave an elderly woman on the ground after she asked him to help her up. The Royal Mail employee was captured on a doorbell camera telling 72-year-old Patricia Stewart he was “too knackered” to help her while making a delivery in Bainsford, a small village in Scotland, on Thursday (local time). Ms Stewart had slipped on ice and hurt her head outside her home, but when the postman approached, he looked down at her and is heard… Source link

A Kentucky postal worker who allegedly threw out more than 100 absentee ballots in a dumpster on Thursday has been fired by the U.S. Postal Service and may face federal prosecution. The Postal Service Office of Inspector General discovered 112 discarded absentee ballots intended for voters in ZIP code 40299, which is located in the Louisville metro area, as well as two political fliers that had also been discarded. The unidentified individual responsible for throwing out the ballots in a… Source link