Talk:United States Post Office Department

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Anything that is conceivably negative in U.S. postal history is missing.

Such as in the antebellum South, postmasters refused to deliver abolitionist mail. The postmaster of Charleston, South Carolina, with the approval of the Postmaster General, publicly burned sacks of it about 1835.

Where are the court cases involving the postal service? Mailings that led to arrests? Mailing of poison or explosives? The current practice of scanning and recording, and preserving forever, both sides of every piece of first class mail, even though it can't be opened? The Post Office and law enforcement? deisenbe (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]