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Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
by squintychino 3y ago
Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
- abfaqb 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmA2xoIoFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmA2xoIoFU
- tpmx 3y agoI mean, if we're going there, there is this comical yet informative and strangely relevant Brooklyn Nine-Nine (thanks djbusby, for the correction) scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5S74kKimFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5S74kKimFs Jake (Andy Samberg) and Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) form an unlikely alliance with Jack Danger (Ed Helms), a nerdy lead investigator at the United States Postal Inspection Service, as they embark on a mission to crack the case to bring down a drug dealer.
- djbusby 3y agoIt's B99 not 30 Rock
- actionfromafar 3y agoI don’t but I was surprised to learn they have guns. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspection_Service https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspect...
- SkipperCat 3y agoIn America, its surprising to find out someone does NOT have a gun.
- devmor 3y agoThey are well trained, judicious and exacting in their conduct. They do not screw around and they do everything by the book. They're like what we wish regular police officers were.
- acdha 3y agoI credit a lot of that to not being part of the homeland security culture: they work for the post office, their job is keeping the idea that you do NOT mess with US mail. I think a lot of the problems with cop culture come back to the idea that they’re basically soldiers separate from the community and doing such an important job that some collateral abuse just has to be expected.
- zinclozenge 3y agoSome agencies, ones you might not even expect like the USPS and FDA, also have law enforcement powers, but have very narrow jurisdiction (relative to general law enforcement agencies like the FBI). So when a case actually does fall under their jurisdiction, they execute their duties "with extreme prejudice", so to speak. Assuming the story from the OP you replied to is true, the fact that they arrested the police officers would show how seriously they take their duties, even if the officers tampering with the mail was due to carelessness while they themselves were performing their duty.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoNotably, if you have a counterfeit dollar bill it's the secret service that deals with it. I've read of someone who worked at a bank who was told that after getting a counterfeit, looked them up in the phone book, and they dealt with it promptly.
- Tabular-Iceberg 3y agoStill not as wild as the fact that while everyone was ridiculing Trump for instituting a space force, they have had a weather force, officially the "NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps", since 1917. But in all fairness, the distinctions are all pretty arbitrary, I'm sure people were laughing as much when the navy spun off their weather stuff and when the army spun off their flying stuff as they do now with the air force spinning off the space stuff.
- lost_tourist 3y agoWe laughed at it because it was the product of someone who isn't really known for original thoughts or consideration of complex concepts, so we all kind of assumed it was just a joke.
- Tabular-Iceberg 3y agoWho, Donald Rumsfeld?
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- easterncalculus 3y agoFor one the Postal Inspection service consistently has a high conviction rate around 98%[0]. Whether that's due to operational excellence or the ability to unwrap evidence for a living is subject for discussion. [0]: https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22524/html/cover.htm https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22524/html/cov...