My question is in regard to postal security.

Why must a person physically take a package that weighs over 16 oz..to the Post Office clerk to be handled? If it is to prevent some sort of pipe bomb to be mailed, it is ridiculous. I would think that if that was the case, the least that can be done is to scan the contents–even if the package had to be opened. But just to make it inconvenient for the general public doesn’t make much sense to me.

I could very well take a package to the post office, put a false return address on it, and mail whatever I wanted without anyone saying anything. No one at the post office knows me better than my mailman who I great almost everyday on his rounds. He, if anyone, can verify who I am and be able to trace the remains of a destroyed package back to me. I would think that would be a much safer way to mail a package.

I realize that a package placed in corner drop mail box may be an invitation for some terrorist to act upon but still, nothing is scanned even if he brings it to the Post office directly.

I, like most of us chippers, do a lot of chip mailing–many times in a priority letter envelope weighing over 1 lb. It is just so inconvenient to prance down to the Post office just for this reason.

Tell me where I’m wrong or if I just have too much time on my hands and stop complaining. I’m not trying to start an argument-- just want an explanation from someone in the “know” if my thinking is awry