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You can rent a mailbox or hire a registered agent for exactly this purpose for trivial amounts of money.



In California, Federal Post Office boxes were not renewed one year after a Federal election year.. "surprise" you need to re-apply for your box.. including details of your automobile registration ? home address of course.. It just so happens there are majority $RACE workers at this Post Office.. walking out of the office is an ordinary middle-class man who is also $RACE .. a quick conversation confirms that the Post Office worker had simply accepted the monthly payment from that man instead of a full review. Similarly-aged middle class man of not-$RACE gets the complete review? yes. true story in the US West Coast


Is the implication here that the feds didn’t already know who leased that post office box from them? And that they don’t have access to state DMV records?

What do you intend for me to infer from your assertion that one individual’s inferred race is more important to a postal worker than that specific individual’s identity or existing relationship with the post office in this case?

And where in the US do post office box rentals last longer than a year? I wasn’t aware that it was possible to lease one for more than 12 months at a go [0]

Are you familiar with Mail Covers? [1]

[0] https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm

[1] https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/audit-reports/postal-inspect...


So someone that isn’t your race went in to a post office make a monthly payment and wasn’t identified, and you went in to make a yearly contract renewal and they identified you using another piece of paper from the government?

Maybe the other man had already had his identity verified when he renewed, or was not doing what you think he was.

Maybe you are seeing a conspiracy where there isn’t one.

Maybe you could have used a bill or any piece of paper with your real address on it if you had asked what other pieces of paper would work.

Maybe I don’t for a minute believe that this is the full story.

Also, you can rent a private mailbox from any of the thousands of places that offer one if you so desire, and not deal with the post office.




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