The cameras don’t run automatic license plate reader (ALPR) software, though.

This seems totally meaningless if they are collecting the data, they can run whatever software they want on it whenever they get around to it.

What wonderful use of taxpayer money...

the same thing they tried to do with garbage trucks. they want info on potential POCs, low income people, and political activist against the gop.

People who have consistently downvoted my comments critical of the USPS doxing you at every turn, and allowing businesses to cheaply spam you:

your move

Guarantee that data is going to be sold

Are you fucking kidding me? USPS was one of the last US gov entities I partially respected.

Can we pease stop building panopticon

The only "upside" to all this is that the worse it gets the more awareness people have

It could be useful to find and report potholes and other maintenance issues, but I doubt anyone is stupid enough to believe that's why they're doing this.

When you see your postal truck taxpayer funded Google camera trucks with them be sure to take your curbside mailbox down and put a mail slot on your house. Make the fuckers get out and walk to every damn house so they can be vigilant for oily driveways or any sitting water too.

I have a camera in my car but it's just so I can get the license plate numbers off of coal rolling trucks so that I can find out where they live and put sealing foam into their tail pipes. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Land of the Free y'all

The part worth watching is the data side of the dashcam-company partnership: who owns the footage, how long it's kept, and whether it can be shared with police or sold on. USPS is subject to FOIA, so a records request for the pilot agreement and any retention or data-sharing terms is one of the few concrete things people can do here. If the deal really is only about mapping roads and signs, the contract should say so, and if it doesn't, that's the story.

I’m going to park my old, fat ass on my front lawn stark nekkid until they pull those fucking camera out.

Jokes on them! My mail carrier never comes down my street.

they'd get an eyeful out here in the woodlands. these old mining roads are barely passable as it is

We don’t have money for new USPS trucks, or air conditioning for the drivers — but spy cameras get funding.

If all this digital surveillance actually worked, governments would be advertising the shit out of the statistics and camera footage of crimes being stopped. Instead we just get stories of cops stalking some poor creeped out girls.

Thank god for the surveillance panopticon, I feel so safe and secure and totally not at risk for something as petty as expressing wrongthink

Sigh. The USPS has one job. To deliver mail. They are not a security agency, an elections monitoring agency, or whatever the hell else Trump wants to use them for.

This makes me think of how Flock (unsuccessfully) pitched to Uber/Lyft to get driver's dash cams into their surveillance network.

Trump seems like the sort of upstanding person who could be reasonably trusted with a system to do automated monitoring of all of society's streetfronts.

Where are the cameras located and how easy are they to cover or damage?

Asking for a friend.

So glad a huge portion of MY MONEY earned through MY LABOR is being used by the evilest pricks to do the dumbest, vilest crap. /s

I loved my mail carriers growing up and still do. I wave at my mail guy every chance I see him. If this big brother crap becomes real, I'm gonna avoid the mail carrier at all costs. I don't want to walk my dog past that truck or anything. These are hard working heroes that are being used by fascists.

shame... ✂️🛞