This narrative reads as USPS headcount that should not exist. The question is if there are in fact postal workers doing extremely out-of-scope things, or if this is a psyop whose mission is to degrade support for USPS.
Large scale international espionage was created by private postal services: https://www.discover-innsbruck.at/en/thurn-und-taxis-und-die...
which replaced the Imperial Reichspost. Later the center of espionage (letter opening) moved from Innsbruck to Frankfurt, with the Rothschild's taken over the news business for financial benefit, and nowadays the Frankfurt and Amsterdam InterXion's.
There's something hilariously Stasi-like about a country's fucking postal service (normally the most banal and practical of all government agencies) of all things having its own psyops covert operations/law enforcement branch. Or at least, it would be funny if it weren't so insidious in real life.
Edit: And to be grudgingly fair to East Germany, even they didn't have their "Deutsche Post der DDR" conduct their own covert ops. Instead they attached the Stasi to the job. Minor difference you might say but a difference nonetheless.
Well, who do you never pay any extra attention to even if you see him around your place for a while? That’s right, the postman. They’re practically invisible to most people.
Insane that this is from 2021 and I've only found out about it now. The Internet is slowly but inexorably getting locked down, and the bitter reality is, there's nothing we can do to stop it.
I don't disagree. But to be clear, I wasn't surprised that I missed it on HN, but that I missed it period. There was a time not so long ago when such a thing would be inconceivable.
I don't think they were implying anything other than surprise that they missed it. Obviously not everyone is on the site every day so the concept of a "dupe" is really a leaky abstraction, and all the passive aggressive comments calling out dupes and old content are annoying and misguided.
This narrative reads as USPS headcount that should not exist. The question is if there are in fact postal workers doing extremely out-of-scope things, or if this is a psyop whose mission is to degrade support for USPS.
Large scale international espionage was created by private postal services: https://www.discover-innsbruck.at/en/thurn-und-taxis-und-die... which replaced the Imperial Reichspost. Later the center of espionage (letter opening) moved from Innsbruck to Frankfurt, with the Rothschild's taken over the news business for financial benefit, and nowadays the Frankfurt and Amsterdam InterXion's.
(2021)
Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892180
Some preventative traffic routing for efficient deliveries makes sense. Otherwise ominous.
There's something hilariously Stasi-like about a country's fucking postal service (normally the most banal and practical of all government agencies) of all things having its own psyops covert operations/law enforcement branch. Or at least, it would be funny if it weren't so insidious in real life.
Edit: And to be grudgingly fair to East Germany, even they didn't have their "Deutsche Post der DDR" conduct their own covert ops. Instead they attached the Stasi to the job. Minor difference you might say but a difference nonetheless.
Well, who do you never pay any extra attention to even if you see him around your place for a while? That’s right, the postman. They’re practically invisible to most people.
It's not paranoia if the postman is really out to get you.
"When you control the mail, you control information."
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Insane that this is from 2021 and I've only found out about it now. The Internet is slowly but inexorably getting locked down, and the bitter reality is, there's nothing we can do to stop it.
Timelines and streams won't catch gaps in information like that.
You'd need something like an index or an archive. Something you can catch up on while skipping what you have seen.
I don't disagree. But to be clear, I wasn't surprised that I missed it on HN, but that I missed it period. There was a time not so long ago when such a thing would be inconceivable.
It was published in 2021… is this a conspiracy that somehow it’s been kept off hacker news for 4 years?
More likely you just didn’t notice when it was published.
Indeed, it would be a hard sell to suggest otherwise.
But for me not to have heard of it at all, period, in four years? I was surprised. But not that surprised, which is even more telling.
I don't think they were implying anything other than surprise that they missed it. Obviously not everyone is on the site every day so the concept of a "dupe" is really a leaky abstraction, and all the passive aggressive comments calling out dupes and old content are annoying and misguided.