Reply #17: YES, SICK THE FEDS ON THEM. [View All]

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Bringing the USPS Inspector down on someone's head is a highly effective tactic. Sounds like a pussy office, right? No, you have to remember that the postal system is federal and messing with the mail carries SERIOUS PENALTIES. People have been locked up on mandatory minimum sentences for decades just for stealing the neighbor's mail.

And postal inspectors aren't afraid to brandish that big stick.

When in college, we called them in because the University housing authority was having the dorm resident assistants withold our mail to force us to come to a pointless "floor meeting." We just asked the postal inspector to work them up and down on the phone, and that's all he did. Not only did we have our mail pronto, we pretty much had the housing people under our heel for the entire school year. Whenever they got on our nerves, we'd remind them the statute of limitations hadn't run out and of the jail penalty for interfering with mail and threatened to press the case, and they'd back off.

I'd hate to be whoever messed with the Crawford Peace House's mail. I would guess that the postal inspector is much more aggressive about pursuing officials that work inside the system.

You should definitely call the highest ranking Postal Inspector you can find for your state. Also, after you have his card/info, you should call the "true majority" office, give them the inspector's contact info, and ask them to follow up with anyone that lives nearby you on their mailing list and ask them if their mail got mangled, too, then follow up with the Inspector.