U.S. Post Office’s creepy snitch
- Mark Frauenfelder
- Uncategorized
- Jul 24, 2001
U.S. Post Office’s creepy snitch program.
One thing that should set off alarms, the postal service says, is a customer objecting to filling out an 8105-A form that requests their date of birth, occupation and driver’s license or other government-issued ID for a purchase of money orders of 3,000 dollars or more. If they cancel the purchase or request a smaller amount, the clerk automatically should fill out Form 8105-B, the “suspicious-activity” report. “Whatever the reason, any customer who switches from a transaction that requires an 8105-A form to one that doesn’t should earn himself or herself the honor of being described on a B form,” the training manual says.