2026-02-07 15:21:45
Ukraine's state postal service under fire for ads that appear to sexualize minors: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/ukraines-state-postal-service-under.html
Ukraine's state postal service under fire for ads that appear to sexualize minors: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/ukraines-state-postal-service-under.html
Sigh, having fun with addressing information questions.
Hint ->
For Canadian addresses, street address, city/town, postal code and province ARE NOT OPTIONAL fields. It is NOT acceptable to have province as part of the CITY name. Even where you have postal boxes there is an address for that.
Same goes for other counties. Find out what the rules are and then put in edit checks.
Is it too early for Scotch?
NoName057(16) struck France's postal and banking services with DDoS attacks for the second time in a week.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/french-postal-banking-services-hit-by-new-cyberattack/3787039#
Twin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in "a major network incident" on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/fran
Newspaper publishers relying on the US Postal Service for delivery say widespread and sometimes extreme delays are damaging their businesses (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/terribly-…
Antitrust Division and U.S. Postal Service Make First-Ever Whistleblower Payment: $1M Awarded for Reporting Antitrust Crime (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/antitrust-division-and-us-postal-service-award-first-ever-1m-payment-whistleblower-reporting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p157#a260129p157
Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.
Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.
But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…
Cyberattack knocks France's postal service and its banking arm offline
https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/22/cyberattack-knocks-frances-postal-service-and-its-banking-arm-offline
DDoS incident disrupts France’s postal and banking services ahead of Christmas https://therecord.media/la-poste-france-ddos-disruption-days-before-christmas
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
Pro-Russian hackers claim attack on French postal service operator https://therecord.media/pro-russia-hackers-claim-attack-la-poste
Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/04/usps-amazon-delivery/<…
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The Postal Service:
🎵 Such Great Heights
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The Postal Service:
🎵 Such Great Heights
#NowPlaying #ThePostalService
https://kingkongkicks.bandcamp.com/track/such-great-heights-remix
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Amazon dipped as one of the biggest drags to the benchmark S&P index
after the e-commerce company said it was in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service about their future relationship
and is considering its options before its contract expires next year
https://stocks.apple.com/AmuHAuFEeSi66
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges
https://therecord.media/russia-sentences-physicist-treason-ddos-attacks
Imagine telling a YTP creator in 2007 that govts around the would institute industrial-scale copyright theft via corporate interest in GenAI and would have that (at least from the outsiders POV) FUNDED BY GOVERNMENTS
I'd have gone postal.
email "I came across your profile on LinkedIn and saw you are open to new opportunities. Are you still actively looking right now?"
um, yeah, I deleted my linkedin a year ago. I guess the lesson is, never give anyone your contact information because scraping is forever.
maybe it's time to set up unique-email-per-contact.
hm, and I could approximate unique-phone-number-per-contact with a pbx.
not sure I wanna do unique-postal-address-per-contact (middle n…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
Hackers knock out systems at Moscow-run postal operator in occupied Ukraine https://therecord.media/hackers-knock-out-systems-russia-operated-post-ukraine
Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 1957 speiste das erste zivile #Kernkraftwerk in #Shippingport Strom ins Netz. Zurückzuführen war das KKW auf eine Initiative von Eisenhower Kernenergie friedlich zu nutzen um der Bevölkerung, nach Hiroshima und Nagasaki, die Angst zu nehmen.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Postal Service:
🎵 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (DJ Downfall Persistent Beat mix)
#ThePostalService
https://thepostalservice.bandcamp.com/track/the-district-sleeps-alone-tonight-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3l14MJpQB4tFFgKLqUqtV3
🔥Ensuring a Postmark on the Date of Delivery:
To assure a postmark is applied on the same day a document is delivered to the USPS,
individuals must utilize specific retail services.
The final rule outlines the following methods:
Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession…
DDoS incident disrupts France’s postal and banking services ahead of Christmas https://therecord.media/la-poste-france-ddos-disruption-days-before-christmas
To ensure you get a postmark that reflects the day you mail something, you’ll have to go to a post office counter and ask for a manual postmark.
This may affect the eligibility of your mail-in ballot, or tax payment
https://www.
Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories https://www.404media.co/ohio-mail-theft-postal-worker-robbery/
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
Russian scientist sentenced to 21 years on treason, cyber sabotage charges https://therecord.media/russia-sentences-physicist-treason-ddos-attacks
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
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The Postal Service:
🎵 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
#ThePostalService
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https://open.spotify.com/track/3l14MJpQB4tFFgKLqUqtV3
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