#USPIS

[insanelyadd]

Craziest/coolest crime story you know about the USPS?

The United States Postal Inspection Service has existed in some form longer than the united states itself has, when Benjamin Franklin appointed the first "surveyor" over oversee the mail (make sure there were no mail crimes happening) in, I think, 1772. They have a conviction rate of 98% which is probably because if you're dumb enough to do mail crimes and it's discovered I mean. If you do mail crime and no one ever learns about it, obviously you can't be charged, if you do mail crime and it's discovered and you get CAUGHT then I think the conviction rate is probably so high because they just have you dead to rights.

A fun fact related to mail crimes: The reason spam mail is listed as "To our friends at (address)" or "(name) or current resident" is because it is ILLEGAL to open mail for someone else. The only way they can mail out the coupons or whatever they might be selling to as many people as possible, and for it to be legal for the recipients to open it, is for who it's addressed to to be vague.

Annual reminder than if you think/know someone is stealing/damaging/destroying your mail then you can try to get in contact with your local postal inspector. They take these crimes very seriously, and it is a federal felony (in the US) called "Obstruction of Correspondence"

As for the craziest mail crime??? A person from the Postal Inspector Forensics Lab (probably not the actual name) was the person who realized all the bombs sent by the unabomber were the same person, and this is part of what led to his arrest. I don't know how much everyone is familiar with that case but he sent the bombs by mail.

Other than that the anthrax attacks in 2001 were done by mail, though I am not super familiar with it and couldn't tell you how crucial the Postal Inspectors were in figuring out the case.

[hitchell-mope]

Moron.

[fruitfulstuff]

Looking Ahead: 40,000 Victims Receive Over $115M in Compensation by MoneyGram

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) has announced that it will be disbursing over $115 million to 38,889 victims in connection with fraud schemes processed by MoneyGram International Inc. The victims, who were targeted by the fraudsters, many of whom are elderly, will recover the full amount of their losses. The USPIS is using these funds, which were forfeited by MoneyGram, to compensate the victims of the fraud through the remission process. MoneyGram entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice in 2012 for failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and aiding and abetting fraud schemes. In 2018, MoneyGram agreed to extend its DPA and implement additional enhanced compliance obligations and forfeited $125 million, representing the volume of consumer fraud transactions it processed during the DPA term. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said, “This distribution of $115.8 million to nearly 40,000 victims demonstrates the Department of Justice’s continued commitment to making victims whole. This is an example of how the department will use every tool at its disposal, including in corporate criminal matters, to provide justice to victims.” Inspector in Charge Christopher A. Nielsen of the USPIS Philadelphia Division said, “This $115 million disbursement provides a measure of financial justice for the many victims who were harmed by fraudsters who preyed on them. The USPIS is proud to be part of this exemplary collaborative effort with our law enforcement and regulatory partners.” U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam for the Middle District of Pennsylvania added, “Working together with the skilled and dedicated investigators of the USPIS, the Justice Department’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), we have achieved outstanding results. This $115.8 million disbursement to over 38,000 victims demonstrates the commitment to compensate and serve justice to the victims of these frauds.” The USPIS is managing the victim remission process, and the victim compensation in this case would not have been possible without the extraordinary efforts of the USPIS Philadelphia Division’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office, which investigated the case, and the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section’s Bank Integrity Unit and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who prosecuted the case. This case highlights the importance of proper regulation and monitoring of financial institutions to prevent fraud and protect consumers. The USPIS and the Justice Department’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, along with their partners, are committed to ensuring that victims are compensated and that justice is served. This $115 million disbursement is a step in the right direction towards that goal. Read the full article

[slyandthefamilybook]

A lot of people are going to be voting by mail this year so this is your friendly USPS reminder that unauthorized handling of the mail is a federal offense. If anyone other than you or your mail carrier touches or solicits your mail, call the US Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455 or go to https://www.uspis.gov/report

[what-have-i-unleashed]

yeah apparently i just learned that disrupting a postal service worker's work can be a federal crime?? like there was a state cop trying to stop a mail van, and the postman just called uspis and the cop got arrested in 2 hours. like bro 😭

also, there was that story of a person not knowing how to write the address on a mail envelope. but the mail investigation team just locked in and managed to deduce who the recipient is in a week. the address on the envelope just has a first name and the name of the city. like how the hell did they work it out from that??

just found out how gangster the uspis is. now i imagine core frisk being the deliverer of mail to everyone in the multiverse has a dedicated army behind them every time, ready to punt whoever trying to disrupt their work.

[vaspider]

So, super fun fact, if you receive threatening physical mail, it is actually extremely easy to report to the United States Postal Inspection Service.

The USPIS has a hotline, so if someone sends you - let's say - a physical letter containing a death threat, you can call the number at that link and report it.

[reagent-leon]

GUYS!!! Stop saying Coyle is singing his ABCs wrong!!

"T, P, D, A, T, F, C, I, A, F, B, I, U, S, P, I, S, D, O, D, S, S, S, U, S, A."

He's not singing his ABCs he's just using the same tune, they're all acronyms

TPD = ?*

ATF = Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

CIA = Central Intelligence Agency, 

FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

USPIS = United States Postal Inspection Service,

DOD = United States Department of Defense,  

SSS = Selective Service System, 

USA = United States of America

Okay? So let's all stop saying he's uneducated or illiterate because he's definitely not. Pre-Sinyala Coyle kept "obsessively complete notes" according to Clyde Perry's account, and furthermore just look at his pretty handwriting on the evidence boxes, that's not an uneducated scrawl. Coyle is willfully ignorant, but he's not lacking in basic literacy skills.

"But Leon, why did he misspell Guilty as Giltee on the Scapegoat?"

Well, friend, I don't entirely know. But as he's spelt it correctly in other places, he probably did it on purpose, matching his dialect to emphasise his point. Maybe he just forgot about the U and by the time he'd started carving the L he knew he needed to commit to his fuck up.

*Sooo I have some theories as to what TPD could stand for.

Total Permanent Disability. In one of Coyles' dialogues, he mentions his Father losing his foot in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. That injury would likely see him permanently disabled and unable to work as he had before (it's implied that Coyles' parents were cattle ranchers), therefore he would be entitled to welfare checks.

Tulsa Police Department. Tulsa and Blackwell are within 2 hours drive of each other and it's very possible that Coyle completed his training at the Tulsa Police Academy before going on to work for the Blackwell Police Department. Tulsa also has history of violent racism, which would appeal to Coyle.

Tactical PSYOPS Detachment/United States Psychological Operations. There was extensive use of psychological operations in World War II, and given everything that the Outlast Trials are about I think this is a worthy contender.

Tobacco Products Directive. This was the only other thing I could think of that would make sense in conjunction with Coyle, but it's a European Union directive, and therefore I think it's unlikely this is what Coyle is referring to, but I still thought it was worth mentioning.

If you have any better ideas please feel free to share them!

A big big thank you to my friends in the Coyle Crew: @misa-bun @soggy-bean and @mortisdeth for their help in researching, theorising and giving me moral support when I thought I was about to lose it

[stormy-butterfly]

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE 2.08 | USPIS

[moontyger]

It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes.

Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a back room at the post office where one of the envelopes had been set aside. Steed, a K-9 handler, arrived with Rip, his narcotics sniffer dog. Rip strode around and, when he got to the pink envelope, sat down. According to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, Steed said this meant the dog had smelled narcotics. That claim became evidence to get a warrant to open the envelope.

This, though, was no ordinary drug bust. As it turned out, there were pills inside the package, but they were not the kind that Rip or other police K-9s are trained to detect. The envelope contained five pills labeled “AntiPreg Kit.” They were made in India, and their medical purpose is to induce abortion. Dwayne Martin, at the time the head of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Jackson, told me this was exactly what the initial tipster had suspected.

...

What will happen to abortion-pills-by-mail and the people who use them if Donald Trump is elected in November? As the accounts of the regional USPIS head and FOIA documents show, a piecemeal crackdown is already underway during a Democratic administration. Under a Trump regime, things might go much further.

Whoever is in power, the incident in Jackson provides a potential window into the future — one in which freelancing local Postal Service employees and officials can call on local cops to halt women from accessing reproductive care and potentially charge and arrest those providing or using abortion medication.

My FOIA request asked for records from past years of investigations of people who’d used the mail to send pills. The documents I got back show how a willing administration might go after distributors. The feds could even lend support to police in states that have criminalized abortion care as they pursue cases under local laws. Pregnant people who order the medications could get caught in the dragnet.

The documents I received after my FOIA request were highly redacted but still reveal many details about a federal investigation that began less than two years ago in Mississippi. Dozens of envelopes with abortion pills were seized. The bust followed on the heels of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and came after a group of anti-abortion doctors filed a federal lawsuit in Texas, arguing that abortion pills should be banned from the mail.

The Jackson investigation apparently also employed what’s called a mail cover: a little-known Postal Service method for collecting data about people suspected of committing crimes. Using an enormous database of images of the outside of envelopes and packages, postal inspectors can digitally compare names, addresses, and other information on one item to others. And the findings can be freely shared with almost any law enforcement agency that requests them. The return address for the hot pink envelope in Jackson included an unused post office box number, the sort of information postal inspectors can use to correlate parcels to each other.

Reproductive justice activist Laurie Bertram Roberts worries about an anti-abortion regime taking power. They direct the Jackson-based Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, which assists fellow Mississippians with any reproductive decision they make, from having a baby, to leaving the state to go to an abortion clinic, to using pills at home.

In a state where abortion is strictly banned post-Roe, Bertram Roberts is also a doula. Along with other doulas, they have organized help for people at the end of their pregnancies, including those which do not come to term. Whether that end is due miscarriage or to abortion is immaterial. “We don’t ask,” they said.

The pink-envelope investigation came out of a sort of collaboration between the feds’ regional offices and a local official: U.S postal workers and a city K-9 cop. Though no one in Mississippi has yet been arrested for helping carry out an abortion, Bertram Roberts fears that synergy. They leaned forward and tensed their lips as I opened my computer and pulled up images I’d obtained from the FOIA request: photos the USPIS had taken, in a post office parking lot, of vehicles suspected of belonging to the person who mailed the pills. 

Bertram Roberts peered anxiously at the screen. “I don’t recognize them!” they said. Their face relaxed, but they shook their head. “The thing I worry about most is people getting criminalized.

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Using local dogs creates risk for abortion-seekers. With the post office inviting local law enforcement to assist with federal investigations, local police could theoretically do their own investigations, by copying names and addresses from the mail. And they could pass that information to anti-abortion district attorneys. 

Police dogs, however, are trained to smell only the illegal drugs heroin, marijuana, ecstasy, fentanyl, and cocaine, not the ingredients in abortion pills, which currently remain legal. And the K-9s’ forensic reliability is suspect.

Why would a police dog alert on abortion pills in the first place, when they’re not narcotics?

Martel, the USPIS national spokesperson, speculated that the pills found in Jackson were contaminated in the manufacturing process by trace amounts of a drug such as marijuana, or perhaps someone was handling narcotics when they did the packing and left molecules behind that only canines’ super-sensitive noses can detect.

Theories along these lines are widespread among police, and they’re inherently impossible to disprove. Elisa Wells, a co-founder and co-director of Plan C, is skeptical. She said her group has conducted laboratory analyses of various brands of foreign-made abortion pills. They’ve all been pure, she said, and no one has ever complained about their containing narcotics.

There is another reason why a K-9 can zero in on a package that’s devoid of illicit drugs. Animal researchers call it “cueing.” Canines are exquisitely sensitive to the minutiae of a human’s posture, eye movements, and other subtle behaviors. Handlers wishing to develop probable cause to do intrusive searches for narcotics can coax their dogs into drug-alerting behavior. To get a reward, the dog will alert, even if nothing illegal is present. (Steed, the K-9 handler, declined to be interviewed for this story.)

Cueing can be deliberate, but it’s more often unconscious. In 2011, Lisa Lit, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, published a now-famous study in which she told the handlers of several police dogs that their K-9s would be searching for “target scents” hidden randomly in several containers. She put red tape on some containers and said it marked the targets. In reality, none of the containers had scents. Even so, most of the dogs alerted on containers, especially those with red tape.

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

call me USPIS the way i’m inspecting your package

[i-give-you-a-fish]

May I have a fish?? In return I give you a harbor seal

Lovely friend

You get a Bicolor Rabbitfish

Siganus uspi

[darkmaga-returns]

This was the riot when Trump won in 2016. There is even concern that they might try to assassinate Trump if he wins. He better keep some private bodyguards. These Neocons have seized power and will not simply go quietly. There are schemes rumored that the Transition Integrity Project, dominated by the LEFTISTS, will stage a major riot in DC if Trump wins far worse than in 2017. They intend to force him to call out the National Guard and then claim that is proof he is a dictator. They plan to block out everything Trump tries to do to paralyze the country. There is no more America.

To the best of my knowledge, the updated U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) directive does not authorize federal troops to use lethal force against citizens, contrary to social media posts but the subtle changes include threat to national security in the revision of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. However, under the Posse Comitatus Act, it is illegal for military personnel to use force against people in the United States unless for self-defense or where “under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.” The National Guard is the exception. If the Civil War broke out, chances are nobody would pay attention to this statute, but it could be argued that they were acting in self-defense.

Focus of the 2016 Version

The 2016 version of the directive did not mention the use of lethal force. Instead, it focused on:

Civil liberties protections: Ensuring strict oversight for operations involving U.S. citizens.

Intelligence collection restrictions: Limiting when and how U.S. person’s information (USPI) could be collected.

Privacy safeguards: Protecting privacy rights and preventing unauthorized data collection.

The 2016 directive centered around intelligence gathering, with no mention of lethal force

New Provisions in the 2024 Version

The 2024 update introduces a dramatic shift, particularly regarding domestic operations. Section 3.3.a.(2)(c) now explicitly permits lethal force in cases of imminent threats or national security emergencies, provided the action complies with legal oversight, specifically DoDD 5210.56, which governs the use of deadly force by DoD personnel.

[hitchell-mope]

Idiots.

[longsightmyth]

My most recent reblog was going to have tags about the uspis but I thought people would think I was joking but no I do need y'all to understand that the most effective law enforcement department is our postal crimes department. They're hardcore.

[queerstuffonscreen]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021) [I]

Episode length: 21-23 min.

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Language: English

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Season 1

Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 2: The Tagger

Episode 3: The Slump

Episode 4: M.E. Time

Episode 5: The Vulture

Episode 6: Halloween

Episode 7: 48 Hours

Episode 8: Old School

Episode 9: Sal's Pizza

Episode 10: Thanksgiving

Episode 11: Christmas

Episode 12: Pontiac Bandit

Episode 13: The Bet

Episode 14: The Ebony Falcon

Episode 15: Operation: Broken Feather

Episode 16: The Party

Episode 17: Full Boyle

Episode 18: The Apartment

Episode 19: Tactical Village

Episode 20: Fancy Brudgom

Episode 21: Unsolvable

Episode 22: Charges and Specs

Season 2

Episode 1: Undercover

Episode 2: Chocolate Milk

Episode 3: The Jimmy Jab Games

Episode 4: Halloween II

Episode 5: The Mole

Episode 6: Jake and Sophia

Episode 7: Lockdown

Episode 8: USPIS

Episode 9: The Road Trip

Episode 10: The Pontiac Bandit Returns

Episode 11: Stakeout

Episode 12: Beach House

Episode 13: Payback

Episode 14: The Defense Rests

Episode 15: Windbreaker City

Episode 16: The Wednesday Incident

Episode 17: Boyle-Linetti Wedding

Episode 18: Captain Peralta

Episode 19: Sabotage

Episode 20: AC/DC

Episode 21: Det. Dave Majors

Episode 22: The Chopper

Episode 23: Johnny and Dora

Season 3

Episode 1: New Captain

Episode 2: The Funeral

Episode 3: Boyle's Hunch

Episode 4: The Oolong Slayer

Episode 5: Halloween III

Episode 6: Into the Woods

Episode 7: The Mattress

Episode 8: Ava

Episode 9: The Swedes

Episode 10: Yippie Kayak

Episode 11: Hostage Situation

Episode 12: 9 Days

Episode 13: The Cruise

Episode 14: Karen Peralta

Episode 15: The 9-8

Episode 16: House Mouses

Episode 17: Adrian Pimento

Episode 18: Cheddar

Episode 19: Terry Kitties

Episode 20: Paranoia

Episode 21: Maximum Security

Episode 22: Bureau

Episode 23: Greg and Larry

Season 4

Episode 1: Coral Palms: Part 1

Episode 2: Coral Palms: Part 2

Episode 3: Coral Palms: Part 3

Episode 4: The Night Shift

Episode 5: Halloween IV

Episode 6: Monster in the Closet

Episode 7: Mr. Santiago

Episode 8: Skyfire Cycle

Episode 9: The Overmining

Episode 10: Captain Latvia

Episode 11: The Fugitive Part 1

Episode 12: The Fugitive Part 2

Episode 13: The Audit

Episode 14: Serve & Protect

Episode 15: The Last Ride

Episode 16: Moo Moo

Episode 17: Cop-Con

Episode 18: Chasing Amy

Episode 19: Your Honor

Episode 20: The Slaughterhouse

Episode 21: The Bank Job

Episode 22: Crime and Punishment

Webisodes

Preparing for the Stakeout

How to Stay Awake During a Stakeout

Processing the Perp

Watch on Netflix

See Brooklyn Nine-Nine post II season 5-8

[thelocalalleyfox]

THSI ASHULE WONY PUR ME FOWN H3S HOLSIN ME USPIE DOWN BY RHE ANKELSS

[Translation]

RHIS ASSHOLE WONT PUT ME DOWN HES HOLDING ME UPSIDE DOWN BY THE ANKLES