'Mystery': U.S. Postal Service goes postal as it monitors your social-media accounts

The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement division is running a covert operation tracking and collecting Americans’ social media posts, Yahoo News reported.

The postal service’s Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored social media accounts for “inflammatory” posts and protest plans, according to an internal document obtained by Yahoo News. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) investigated Parler and Telegram accounts that referenced protests that were supposed to occur on March 20 for the so-called International Day of Protests, the document showed.

“Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” an internal government memo said, according to Yahoo.

“Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts,” the document said, according to Yahoo.


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dammit

Who needs a civil liberties "expert" to point out how unConstitutional this is?  No where - that I can think of - does the Constitution give the USPS the authority to monitor social media.

And as the author points out, where is the going-broke USPS getting the $$$ to play, "I-COP."  (Who doesn't snicker at that moniker?)  

 And will someone please point out all these so-called "threats" those oh so brave mail warriors face on a given day?
No wonder I couldn't get them to pick up the phone yesterday.  They were probably too skeert.

2cent wrote:Who needs a civil liberties "expert" to point out how unConstitutional this is?  No where - that I can think of - does the Constitution give the USPS the authority to monitor social media.

And as the author points out, where is the going-broke USPS getting the $$$ to play, "I-COP."  (Who doesn't snicker at that moniker?)  

 And will someone please point out all these so-called "threats" those oh so brave mail warriors face on a given day?
No wonder I couldn't get them to pick up the phone yesterday.  They were probably too skeert.

Probably getting the $$$ from all those millions of dollars in "covid relief"...

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

2cent wrote:Who needs a civil liberties "expert" to point out how unConstitutional this is?  No where - that I can think of - does the Constitution give the USPS the authority to monitor social media.

And as the author points out, where is the going-broke USPS getting the $$$ to play, "I-COP."  (Who doesn't snicker at that moniker?)  

 And will someone please point out all these so-called "threats" those oh so brave mail warriors face on a given day?
No wonder I couldn't get them to pick up the phone yesterday.  They were probably too skeert.

Probably getting the $$$ from all those millions of dollars in "covid relief"...

  You're probably right.