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Is this a distraction story from USPS?

• ghostbrainalpha 6y ago
  I like the scepticism! But the fact that the story was posted by the recipient of the post card, to a Facebook Group, and then only hit the news after going viral means it probably wasn't done by a PR company. Having done some of this "black hat PR" myself I can tell you that we don't typically cover our tracks that well. We almost always plant bullshit by going to the news outlets themselves, or paying a blogger to put up an article on BI, Forbes, of HuffPo. On a completely unrelated note, have you guys heard Amazon is hiring 33,000 new employees with a compensation package average of 150k? Just to help with unemployment during this time of crisis. Pretty cool of them to do that.
  • jacobush 6y ago
    They can afford it, with all the subsidies the get from the USPS when delivering to non-urban places. Amazon is a cancer in Congress.
  • salemh 6y ago
    A blog post with your experience -even heavily redacted- would be interesting on the black-hat PR/public opinion swaying as a separate topic if you ever feel inclined.
  • hal9000-tng 6y ago
    ah, completely unrelated!
• klyrs 6y ago
  This kind of story is fairly normal in my 40-year existence. USPS has a strong culture to deliver the mail, come hell or high water. Sometimes old mail gets found, and they deliver it anyway, because that's the principled thing to do. Of course, USPS has been politicized to an unreasonable degree, so folks are reading it in that context.