Originally Posted by
lupine
He took the package, but it was brought back to me two days later by a different postal employee who brought it to my door, rang the bell, and handed it to me with a sticker on it that said that packages over 13 ounces must be handed to a postal employee at the counter or they can not be placed on a plane -- because they don't know who I am. (Despite ringing my bell and having me answer my door,...
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It will get even better. Just recently DHS designated TSA as the lead agency not only for transportation security but for postal and shipping. I don't think anyone at TSA has figured that out yet but I bet it could get entertaining once they did. It's all on the updated version of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and no it is not SSI. Lucky page 13 of 188 is all you need to see.
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/NIPP_Plan.pdf