"Mr. Turner. So every package that comes through the postal
service goes through this x ray that’s coming from abroad.
Ms. Durant. It goes through, but it goes through fairly
quickly; and it does enable us to select from those packages,
and our inspectors are pretty astute who work in the mail
facilities in doing that. But we do believe having to do it on
the spot and in that kind of manual mode severely hampers our
ability to select as many as we probably need to inspect for
drug smuggling."
To answer your snarky question, Czarcasm did NOT report that OP. No one did. I had just read the OP on the Easter Bunny started yesterday morning which I moved because it was somewhat incoherent as a General Question.
As others in this thread have offered, the answer to his OP was clearly a NO as to reading someone’s mail thru x-rays.
Well if that’s the case, he’s just guilty of posting in the wrong forum. That and a career troll tends not to wait two months before they start troll’n.
Horse shit. The only clear no was the useless post from the ever-useless Czarcasm. Nothing substantive has been offered in this thread to support a no, and your unsupportable closure served no purpose but to piss people off and discourage asking questions. Are you happy with your action?
Crotalus, you’ve been here long enough to know that insults and personal attacks are not permitted outside the Pit. Comments should also be kept civil in ATMB. This is an official warning. Don’t do this again.
Ok, just for a second assume not everyone on this board is an Ivy League graduate and doesn’t have an IQ of 450 and that some people like it here because they learn new things.
What was wrong with leaving that thread open until it was explained, with cites, because that was in GQ after all and this board is supposed to be about fighting ignorance, why the post office doesn’t have some machine or machines that can scan mail like described in the OP?
I guess if we are going to play the pedantic nitpick game and say, “Well he said ‘x-ray for letters’ so that’s all we are going to consider.” then shutting the thread down ASAP is ok, I guess, but as mentioned above the Post Office does have scanning machines for mail.
What’s wrong with leaving the thread open until someone like RaftPeople comes along and says, “Yes they do have scanning machines but not for the purpose you are thinking of. Here is a cite for what they are and what they do.”? Boom, ignorance fought.
I suspect that this is Crotalus’s basic point, too.
What is the harm of GQ thread like this? Why not let it happen, let Dopers post to it, cute and factual, and let it drift to the bottom? Happens all the time.
I tend to avoid kerfuffle threads like this, but the actions of the Mods in this particular thread don’t seem okay, and seem to be part of a pattern of late.
I just want to add my voice to the list of folks who are saying quick shut-down seems, to me, to be jerkish and against the basic “mission” of the SDMB.
