Could Your Postal Worker Soon Be Thwarting Terrorist Attacks?
- Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:55pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Despite the U.S. Post Office suffering a reported $8.5 billion loss, Frederic Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), the union of letter carriers, thinks the government agency should actually be expanding its role and responsibilities rather than cutting back. According to Rolando, postal workers could now also serve as first responders in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, and collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security on thwarting biological terrorist threats.
Yes, when terror strikes, the bureaucrats who can’t even deliver your mail on time should be the ones in charge of life and death decisions.
CNSNews writes:
President of The National Association of Letter Carriers Fredric Rolando, has several ideas to increase the responsibility of some postal workers. Among them is to outfit postal trucks with sensors so letter carriers can thwart biological terrorist attacks, according to recent reports.
Rolando testified before Congress in March of 2011 that there were lots of ideas for new services that could be provided “adding to what letter carriers already do to protect community and national security.”
(H/T: CNSNews.com)
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Comments (97)
The_Postal
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:08pmI work for USPS, it‘s the best group of people I’ve work with and among the smartest on average. You try to remember 700 address east with 1-4 last names in a single house and yes, we’ll make mistakes. More than anything, the top of the post office is fat and stupid, it’s government, I know this and we do the best we can with far to much micromanagement.
I tell you this though. In a disaster, I and many other carriers would be there to help, just like any of you would be. We live in these places we work. In no way would any of them do anything that this suggests. Oh sure, they’d tell us… and then we’d go on about our day with a shake of the head and a chuckle.
It’s easy to bash the carriers, but they work hard in pretty crap weather (at least we in the midwest, 100 degree summers and a blizzard, hurray!) The union sucks, it’s basically worthless and 75% of us know it. This is just the guy at the top blowing smoke to cover his over paid butt.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:37pmGod Bless ya!
Report Post »Multiple Arms
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:44pmMost of our local mail carriers are ex-military and retired military. They do a great job. The management at the top are the ones that are useless.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:58pmThe biggest problem with the Post Office is Congress and the People.
“The People” Refuse to close any post office, they want “someone elses” office closed, but not “theirs” even though they probably have 2 others with in 10 miles.
People still want 6 day a week delivery, I dont even check my mail but 1 maybe 2 time a week max, the rest of the time it just sits in the box. If delivery went to a M, W, F for Business and T, Th for Residential or some variant of that. That would DRASTICALLY reduce costs….
Also make sure there is at Minimum 15 Miles between Post offices and Increase Public Private Partnership with Fedex Store UPS Store and other Shipping Stores so they can offer TRUE PO Box services and other services currently reserved for official post offices., That would also Drastically reduce expenses.
That will maintain the constitutional goal of the Post Office, to have communications to areas that would not be served by the private sector (and yes there are some still) but cut the cost to the tax payer to an absolute minimum even making the post office profitable
Report Post »jussabitconfused
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 11:19pmI also work at USPS. I am a city letter carrier who works in -10 degree weather to over 100 degree weather. This winter I slipped on ice and ended up in the hospital for 2 days with a concussion. I have been bitten by 4 dogs and attacked by many others.
Report Post »I try very hard to get my customers mail right. Sure I make a mistake once every month or two. I am a human after all. When I am gone on my day off or on vacation I have no control over who does my route. I come back to nasty comments written on the mail about what an idiot I am.
Management constantly presses us to finish our routes faster so we can carry mail off of another route when they are gone. They split up routes quite often because of very few substitutes. (They always have a hiring freeze for part time carriers) Reading these comments makes me feel terrible even though I can see how people can come to these conclusions.
Residents move all the time without changing their addresses and new people move in without letting us know. Friends and family move in and out with residents. Many of them expect us to somehow keep up with their lives.
I don’t have much time to pay attention to who gets what mail. However, I do know who gets piles of political mail, both liberal and conservative. If you get a lot of either your carrier will know. I belong to the NALC. I would love to quit and wish more carriers felt the same way. Just so you know in my office about 40 percent of our carriers are conservative. There are abou
rightwinglefty
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:57pmGuns don’t kill people. Postal workers do!
Report Post »EdBoo
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:44pmThis has nothing to do with national security. I has to do with keeping dues flowing to the postal union.
Anyone who thinks it any more or less than that hasn’t a clue how all this stuff works.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:12pmI’m not sure what you mean, but I know how it works. Here a little, there a little, give an inch here,an inch there ……..pretty soon they are in your house with a gun in your face handcuffing you and taking you away to the closest waterboarding center for violating greenhouse gas emmissions for farting. That’s how it works. I hope I’m wrong.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:43pmJust great! All we need now is for a government agent coming to our doors everyday, checking out who we get mail from, eyeballing our property, etc, etc. Next on the agenda postal employees will be empowered to enter our homes and do searches on a hunch just like the FBI. Then they will want to put government spy cams in our homes. This is not planet earth. Surely I have been abducted by aliens while I was sleeping last night. It’s all just a bad dream…..wakeup Crunch….pinch me!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:43pm911 tower 7 demolished with explosives
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:40pmI think it’s more along the lines of them knowing what mail people get and whom is opposed to unions; around when do people get home; who gets mail from organizations such as the Heritage Foundation; who will stand in their way of total domination and control, which by the way would be terrorism in the eyes of a control monger.
Report Post »Donald
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:38pmThey lose 8.5 billion a year.
Report Post »I had to go to bill pay to get my mail.
And now put them as first responders….No Way…Let them go out of business–they put themselves in this position.
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:38pmBut I will say, the Constitution does require a U.S. Government mail system, so I have no problem with the post office per se, but I do have a problem when the USPS is unionized, and I have a problem when they become spies for the Feds.
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:36pmI think the USPS Priority Mail system Rocks.They do a great job,deliver as promised,2-3 days,at a fair price.We’ve always had a great relationship with our carriers at my house. I don’t want them snooping around and narking on American Citizens like little prison snitches do in jail.
Report Post »TSA agents are bad enough.We don’t need USPS mail carriers being agents for the Feds.Breakdown the trust/comraderie,and I’ll just use UPS or Fedex.The USPS will cease to exist,eventually.
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:41pmArticle I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”.
As I stated in a previous post, I support the USPS to deliver my mail, but that is it. Anything else is unconstitutional.
Report Post »Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:35pmThe unPatriot Act has a provision in it for mailmen to spy on American citizens. Now this? Screw off Feds.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:42pmvote for Ron Paul or Move to Argentina …..
Report Post »whitaker
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:23pmThats what this sounds to me, using mailmen to spy on people. It would save the fed a lot of work and money from trying to get cameras installed in all neighborhoods.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:31pmI could see them being useful if they would deliver packages with free Korans (that had enclosed spy listening and transmitting devices)to all households with Abdul or Muhammad in their name.
Report Post »DJSKI
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:26pmAVG also hitting on a backdoor phishing scanner, trying to copy important details on my computer. Not Sure if this is a hack job, or something the Blaze approves of, but this is a dangerous tool to be running on your website Blaze???
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:20pmthey lose money and are inadequate.and now they are the new first responders yeah right…another ploy to keep the money rolling in…2012 will be here and these freaks will all be gone…
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:19pmTime for Fed Ex to do one half of the country and UPS to do the other, they are in business to make a profit!!!!!
Report Post »tpilot171
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:18pmFirst it’s the TSA and now the postal service. The White House Army of intel against the American Citizen is getting bigger and they will soon be all union. What do you think.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:13pmUh, my letter carriers can’t even consistently deliver MY mail to MY address – I don’t think they can handle anything more complicated. Let’s see – - match address on envelope to address on mail box – - Gee, it doesn’t seem that difficult to me – but apparently it is. First responders? Uh, I think not.
Report Post »SirFlannel
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:10pmAm I the only one who remembers the stories of mailmen managing to not deliver mail, tons of it found in their homes, etc? They have one job, and some of them manage to screw THAT up. Sure, let’s give them tools (re: weapons) to combat terrorism
Report Post »ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:07pmThey won’t stop until they take your guns, money, and food out of your fridge.
Why not just announce a war on the American people?
Be honest…I‘m just sayin’
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:07pmGod help us……
Report Post »I have to work with these bums and I can’t even get them to open the door for deliveries. It’s not my job is a common refrain around the PO.
They promote the bad workers who can‘t hack the work because the unions won’t let them fire them.
It’s no mystery why they are broke. Having them be first responders would be like sending a disaster to a disaster.
sooner12
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:05pmThe USPS can’t even deliver the mail, adequately!
Now they want to protect me? And a union to boot………?
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:55amI don’t agree with the USPS protecting us. However, I think the USPS is about the best in the world when it comes to delivery! Canada takes at least 15 days to deliver (I know this because my daughter lives there) and, I have lived in Mexico where the mail within Mexico City can take up to one month to arrive!
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:05pmI guess they’ll need Hummers with flashing lights and sirens to deliver the mail and to combat terrorism. They’ll have to pack some heat and carry gernades.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:09pmOOOohhhh oh I know I know ,
Report Post »Obama’s civilian national security force…as well armed as the U S Military, as well funded as the U S Military ……
USAMama
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:20amHmmmm…. remember the story about the x-ray vans the gov’t bought recently that can see through walls etc?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:05pmSince they ARE a GOVERNMENT entity, why would I trust anything they would say??????
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:03pmIs anybody else having a security problem with the Blaze? Norton keeps trying to block it as an attack..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:14pm@ PERFECTLYFRANK ~~~ Same here….we keep getting “We’ve saved you” messages….
THANK YOU, NO!
Report Post »bharris0
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:31pmsame here.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:34pmIt is privacy protection in Norton. The Blaze uses ad tracking snippets of code, which are from third parties. You can selectively control this.
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:45pmGet rid or Norton; it’s a virus in itself. The best Internet security and anti-virus software is Kaspersky or Zone Alarm Pro.
Report Post »thebronze
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:54pmSame here.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:00pmI’ve had IE Help come up on a new window telling me it couldnt display the page. I never hit the hep button nor tried to display a page other than the Blaze. The strange thing is it happened on my laptop just a minute before I switched to my desktop…… It’s up on my laptop again. Says” Cannot display page…The page you are trying to display has an incorrect address and cannot be displayed. Please try another page.” Now it’s requesting an add-on..I just receintly disabled a lot of them. Its probably the post office trying to break into my laptop. Paranoia strikes again.:)
Report Post »arx
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:02pmThat’s all we need. A more expensive post office so they can charge us another 20 cents to mail a letter.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 11:29pmI now use the postal system two maybe three times a year.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:59pmHow about we equip them with Thremal and MWave scanners and then they can Search every home over day… That will protect everyone, for your saftey
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:02pmBut our borders are still wiiiiiide open…which is a good thing for our security I assume
Report Post »1stAmendment
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:06pmThey don’t need that equipment, the FBI now has permission to illegally search your house because of a hunch!
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:13pmgreat ..another friggin great idea ……..
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:21pmHellllllooooo Newman
Report Post »:D
TomFerrari
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:25pmDesperation is just ugly.
Cannot afford to stay in business.
Cannot compete with the private sector.
Went bankrupt years ago, now subsidised with BILLIONS each quarter.
They see the end is near, so they are desperate to find some new job to do.
Sorry, Charlie. Game over. You lose.
Government should not be in competition with private businesses! In order for the government-run business to do well, the privately run businesses must suffer. In order for the private ones to prosper, government must suffer. It is a CLEAR conflict of interests for the government to compete with the private sector. They exist solely to DEFEND our rights. The government is not a person with its own rights. It is a SERVICE established BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, not to serve its own self interests!
Report Post »This beast has grown out of control.
Time for some SERIOUS pruning!
KickinBack
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:30pmI could see my postman speeding slowly away in that oversized golf cart he drives to report to Big Sis.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:38pmWow I wish we had them on 911
Report Post »maybe they would have stopped WTC7 from being Demolished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0vKL8fNLIE
which the Govt denies ever happened, Rumsfeld does not even know
WTC7 fell that day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-reMDq1iw&feature=related
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:39pmThe postman was a good movie, I liked Tom Petty’s role in it.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:40pmsearch for yourself
Donald Rumsfeld – 9-11 – Mass Murdering War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Building 7 on Mancow Meuller
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:47pmAs if they don’t already know many things about each U.S citizen.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:51pmAllow me to explain something to people. The Federal Reserve is a private corporation that is bonded with the government, therefore private industry has had access to your income, social security number, tax information, address, and scores of other personal information for decades. Do you get it yet?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:01pmSince my mail carrier retired last year .. the new ones can’t even get the right mail in the right box …. we are doomed.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:13pmHow about radio frequency emitters which run the gamut in a few seconds every street they are on…so they blow up the radio controlled bombs before the cowards get to their target.
Report Post »click_name_4_impeachment
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:20pmThe post man is actually a really good movie….one of my favorites
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:21pmThe most inept institution in government? You have to be kidding me? Clouseau esq, ‘eh?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:34pmfirst responders???? They would be the 1st is line to get out of Dodge!!
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:47pmMaybe they could team up with the firedept in Cedar falls and then they could deliver the mail right to your kitchen table :)
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:49pmWow.
You know what this means, right?
The Postman is gonna snitch on you to the Feddie Gov if he smells a whiff of some weed, sees your home with extraordinarily hard access, no tresspass signs, guns in plain sight, Tea Party Flags, any flags of any organization on their “list”- which you will never have access to, if you have guard dogs, surveillance cameras, sprinklers, and the trucks they drive will be equipped with millimeter wave scanners and x-ray scanners to scan your house (for gold, weapons, nude pictures, etc.), they will be equipped to steal all your cellphone data from any accessible device, your wireless internet data, your wired internet data, your brainwaves, behavioral analysis based on body temperature, facial expressions, gait (the way you walk), how much you defecate, the texture of it, how heavy it is in atomic weight, chemical analysis of the smell, mass spectrometry of your urine sample, taste analysis of it and your feces, the collection of any bodily waste with accessible DNA from your trash, your fingerprints off your doorknob, a gas analysis of the air surrounding your home, advanced cloning of your person from collected DNA in order to ascertain your sexual and physical performance in realtime while comparing it to data collected from raw surveillance of your home through the wall while you have a nice time with your wife…etc,etc.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:26amForget it, Rolando. No matter how many stupid ideas you come up with, none of them will justify propping up the USPS much longer. We cannot afford government agencies that do not run efficiently and make a profit. Just like Amtrak, you gotta go …
Report Post »RedPepper2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:38amSeeing that the post office is running 8 billion in yearly debt, I suggest they spend their time learning how to become more efficient at delivering my mail and leave the intelligent gathering to the CIA and FBI.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:32amThese morons can’t even deliver the mail; they’re gonne protect me!!??…I an pigs eye….
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