OPED: Why is the Postal Service running a spy operation?

by Rep. Nancy Mace  |   May 10, 2021 12:00 AM

The Postal Service was created by our founders in the Constitution. This same document guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.

They literally fought the revolution over this goal, to be free from unreasonable search by the government. They would roll in their graves to learn that the Postal Service of all government agencies has transformed into an arm of the “deep state,” a kind of thought police with its own “covert” surveillance agency to monitor the social media activities of the public for “inflammatory” content.

The Postal Service can’t even deliver our mail on time, but it thinks it’s appropriate to run a sophisticated domestic spy program targeting its customers? Why is the post office running an intelligence operation?

Many, including myself, aren’t comfortable with any government agency secretly reading our emails, reading our social media posts, or monitoring our phone calls, but when an agency such as the FBI violates our privacy, it’s possible to hold it accountable. It has a director who can be questioned and fired, a public budget that Congress can cut, and agents who can be sued and prosecuted in court. It’s a publicly known entity with built-in safeguards.

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About Nancy Mace:  Congresswoman Nancy Mace grew up in Goose Creek, S.C. and eventually graduated from Stratford High School, but not before working at the Waffle House on College Park Road in Ladson. She graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, where she was the school’s first female to graduate from its Corps of Cadets in 1999. She later earned a masters degree in Mass Communication from The University of Georgia. She is the author of In The Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon & Schuster, 2001). Her business experience stems from corporate technology consulting to starting her own company as well as commercial real estate. Mace also served as a Coalitions Director and Field Director for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; she worked in seven different states during the 2016 presidential primaries and played a pivotal role in the Lowcountry’s First Congressional District during the South Carolina primary. She is the mom of two children aged 11 and 14.