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dameatball

(7,398 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 09:27 PM Oct 2018

Do people even know how mail rooms and distribution even work in large organizations?

If you want to mail a bomb, anthrax or whatever to someone you want to kill, you have to realize that the first 2 or 3 people that handle the package or envelope in any large organization are NOT the recipient (not including the delivery people). I have had that responsibility on my staff for many years. That is why they have protocol for that sort of thing in these organizations. You are just as likely to kill or maim someone that agrees with you politically (somewhat) as you are to do the same to your target. It is a high degree of failure/low degree of success operation.
Unless you just want to harm someone and are really just wanting to strike out it just is a bad strategy. You may blow up a comrade.

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Do people even know how mail rooms and distribution even work in large organizations? (Original Post) dameatball Oct 2018 OP
Posted this earlies today, Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #1
I missed your post, but you are absolutely correct. dameatball Oct 2018 #2
Bob had a extra three to four hours of Mail today as Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #3
What does "call out" mean? marybourg Oct 2018 #6
Calling off work? irisblue Oct 2018 #7
Oh. We used to say " calling IN (sick). marybourg Oct 2018 #11
Usually Sick. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #8
When I started hearing some of the details of the investigation... Petosky Stone Oct 2018 #4
Probably. The guy did seem to want attention. More to come I'm sure. dameatball Oct 2018 #5
He's not that smart PJMcK Oct 2018 #9
I work in a small office and I don't open my own mail. TomSlick Oct 2018 #10
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Posted this earlies today,
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 09:34 PM
Oct 2018

Our Mail Carrier as well as Post Office personnel are on super high alert. Our Mail Carrier said today,it is making their days a extra two hours longer just for the time needed to inspect incoming mail .

Secondly, The call out rate has gone threw the roof. Carriers are scared.


BTW,understand all Mail is photographed as it passes through the system. So when these packages started to show up,that caught my eye immediately.

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
11. Oh. We used to say " calling IN (sick).
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:33 AM
Oct 2018

Thanx, for helping with the new lexicon. In has become out and vice versa. Like “based out of”, instead of “based in” Got it.

 

Petosky Stone

(52 posts)
4. When I started hearing some of the details of the investigation...
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 10:00 PM
Oct 2018

(before they caught the guy) I was wondering if he worked at the, extremely large, mail center. Where he could smuggle the packages in under his shirt and just drop them on a conveyor belt, somewhere along the line.

And, I would expect that any intentional mail-bomb would be made to explode upon opening.

I'm sure that it's no secret that anyone, of any political importance, has their mail meticulously screened.

He's a psycho, that knew he would be caught, and did it for the attention.

Making Abnormal Go Around.

dameatball

(7,398 posts)
5. Probably. The guy did seem to want attention. More to come I'm sure.
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 10:03 PM
Oct 2018

why would anyone take steroids and post crap on Facebook unless they wanted attention?

TomSlick

(11,098 posts)
10. I work in a small office and I don't open my own mail.
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 11:31 PM
Oct 2018

This guy is no criminal mastermind. As my criminal law professor told us: "No one goes to jail for committing a crime. They go to jail for being stupid."

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