I feel am being discriminated by the Post Office:|

[dababus]

I am really pissed at the Post Offices. Since September, every time I go to post office to send something, the casheir at the window always ask me what's in the box, whats in the envelope. blah blah.

do i have to tell them every time that am sending a mobo, video card, hard drive, modem, cpu. etc etc.

this morning, I send a money order in a regular post office envelope and the cashier was asking me whats in the fvcking envelope.

I see a huge line of people carry boxes and envelopes and they send there stuff without any questions asked.

I see other people sending packages and parcels but no body asks them what the hell is inside. I feel that am being discriminated just because am Middle Eastern. :|

whats the matter with people.

 

Ask to speak with the Postmaster.

He will straighten the problem out.

 

[fatbaby]

sue

~fat

 

[Wallydraigle]

Maybe they're hitting on you.

 

[cressida]

.... bad postal workers! :frown:

 

[thomsbrain]

yup, sounds like they're singling you out. with the press the way it is, people are going to be like that. they were the same way about japanese in WWII, too. it's wrong, but the average person sees all this stuff on TV, and they are going to subconsciously start being kind of scared of middle eastern people.

 

[phatcow]

whats wrong with being a little more stringent? Its for the safety of others. I mean... 100 percent of the terrorists were middle eastern. That makes middle eastern men to be more of a suspect than a caucasian man. Its a way of life.... Things will die down eventually. They are just being careful for all of us. Not just being an asshole to you. People died. Lots of people died. They are just trying to prevent more from dieing by other means. WIll a couple more questions kill you?

just think about it.

 

[Moonbeam]

Your problem raises profound questions. You are middle eastern and don't want to be profiled, but it is more than very likely that any terrorist sleepers in this country are middle eastern. Set the facts of your own personal envolvment aside for a moment and tell me how an enlightened society would handle this problem. Must we wait till somebody that looks like you and has their origin in the same place blows 5000 people up before we ask you what's in the package, or do we respond with a statistical fact and do some small measure of prevention. I don't know, but it might help to see the clerk as somebody who is trying in their small way to save lives rather than specifically hasteling you. Try thanking him for his caution and expressing your undersrtanding of his or her thinking. Some appreciation, maybe even fake appreciation may get the clerk off your back next time. I heqrd a black man explain that he wistles Mozart at the train station to try to relax somewhat lone women who have to stand on the platform with him. His thinking, if he has culture he's maybe not dangerous.

 

[Keego]

Take it as a compliment, they're talking to you more than the average joe who walks in and sends pot to his uncle bubba in mississippi.

 

[jacklutz]

<< whats wrong with being a little more stringent? Its for the safety of others. I mean... 100 percent of the terrorists were middle eastern. That makes middle eastern men to be more of a suspect than a caucasian man. Its a way of life.... Things will die down eventually. They are just being careful for all of us. Not just being an asshole to you. People died. Lots of people died. They are just trying to prevent more from dieing by other means. WIll a couple more questions kill you?

just think about it. >>



I don't think it's the cashier's responsibility or right to question him about his packages.

 

[phatcow]

<< I don't think it's the cashier's responsibility or right to question him about his packages. >>



just like its not the security guards at the airport xray machines responsibility to know whats in your luggage, right?

give me a f*cking break. just wait until you get something in the mail that gets you sick or killed. then lets see if you say the cashier's responsibility was to do more than what she did.

 

[Dually]

Post a link to a picture of yourself. Lets see why they are doing it.

 

[Kenazo]

hehe if someone black or not started whistling Mozart next to me at a train stop (if I was a female alone) would freak me out. All I'd be thinking was Clockwork Orange and his Bach....

 

[jacklutz]

<<

<< I don't think it's the cashier's responsibility or right to question him about his packages. >>



just like its not the security guards at the airport xray machines responsibility to know whats in your luggage, right?

give me a f*cking break. just wait until you get something in the mail that gets you sick or killed. then lets see if you say the cashier's responsibility was to do more than what she did. >>



The cashier is not trained to be a security guard or screener; they are trained to take your money and move the package on its way.

 

[Dually]

<< whats wrong with being a little more stringent? Its for the safety of others. I mean... 100 percent of the terrorists were middle eastern. That makes middle eastern men to be more of a suspect than a caucasian man. Its a way of life.... Things will die down eventually. They are just being careful for all of us. Not just being an asshole to you. People died. Lots of people died. They are just trying to prevent more from dieing by other means. WIll a couple more questions kill you?

just think about it. >>



Thats the dumbest logic ever. Most terrorists in this country are white men. Think o of the UniBomber, Terry Nichels, Tim McVeigh, Olympic Park bomber. The list goes on. Also since the terrorists make up a small portion of the Arabs just like the white terrorists do that doesn't mean all white people or all arab people are terrorists.

In fact all it means is that a few white, arab, and black men are terrorists.

The only generalization that could reasonalby be drawn is that men in general shoudl be scrutinized since they 98% or more are the terrorists.

 

[yellowperil]

The point is that they are asking him stupid questions to begin with. If he was a terrorist, would he tell them he is shipping a bomb or anthrax? I doubt it.

My mom flew to New York several times this year to visit my grandmother before she died. Each time, they set up two lines at MCO (Orlando Int'l), one line for Middle Easterners/East Asianers and the other line for everyone else. The latter line boarded the plane without incident and waited for the other line to be checked. My mom told me they searched through all her stuff, even in her lipstick. Yet, nobody seems to be concerned that there might've been another Tim McVeigh on that plane.

 

[dababus]

I visit post office almost once a week, either in Bellevue, or Bothell. either i send some money order or send a package. Am a regular customer, on top of that they ask inquire every time, what's inside the packaging.

may be i take address, box, wrapping and the items to post office and package in front of them.

 

[phatcow]

the

<< UniBomber, Terry Nichels, Tim McVeigh, Olympic Park >>

terrorists did not kill 5000 people.

middle eastern terrorists did.


those terrorists dont have a greater reason to do anything more right now.

as for the middle eastern terrorists, we are bombing the sh1t out of their organization. by the end of the airstrike, the taliban will prolly be distroyed. that would mean that they have a lot more anger towards the us, a greater chance of doing it.


its all words and about equality till it hits close to home, a loved one, a relative.

 

[mithrandir2001]

The postal workers are probably supposed to ask...new regulations...I wouldn't take it personal although I wouldn't like it myself.

 

[dawheat]

ehh I'm asain and every time in the last couple month's I've dropped off a package, they've asked what I'm shipping. Nothing in your face- just a polite- what are you sending. I don't have a problem with it.

 

[dababus]

once a while is ok, but am getting this kind of treatment everytime I visit PO.

 

[NFS4]

Hahaha, this is bringing back flashbacks of the last scene of Se7en.

"WHAT'S IN THE BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????"

 

[oLLie]

<< sue

~fat >>



That was the dumbest suggestion so far. Suing in this country is a flipping joke, we don't need Anandtechers to contribute to the problem. But it is a stupid thing to ask, like the other guy said if he was a terrorist would he really tell them he was shipping a bomb or anthrax?

 

[b0mbrman]

Bah...While I agree that profiling sucks --

When I drive around LA, I can expect to get pulled over once a week by a cop who'll ask me where I'm from, shine his flashlight into my back seat, tell me some bullsh*t like my liscence plate lights could be brighter or something like that.

-- can you really blame them? Maybe you should be saying to yourself

"Man, I wish that those 19 pieces of sh*t hadn't hijacked those planes and flown them into the twin towers and the pentagon and made us Middle Easterners look bad"

instead of

"I hate the people at the post office for taking well-meaning, but probably worthless precautions."

The point is that they are asking him stupid questions to begin with. If he was a terrorist, would he tell them he is shipping a bomb or anthrax? I doubt it.

You're thinking at the extremes. What if a terrorist is already nervous about what he's sending?

My mom flew to New York several times this year to visit my grandmother before she died. Each time, they set up two lines at MCO (Orlando Int'l), one line for Middle Easterners/East Asianers and the other line for everyone else. The latter line boarded the plane without incident and waited for the other line to be checked. My mom told me they searched through all her stuff, even in her lipstick. Yet, nobody seems to be concerned that there might've been another Tim McVeigh on that plane.

Hmmm...I might say something to this later

 

[no0b]

bah just say it has anthrax in it if you can find some of those biohazard stickers to place on the parcel
or say it's a bomb