I am stuck in the weirdest sort of bureaucratic inception right now, trying to figure out why @usps blocked mepic.twitter.com/leXgeWtaaq
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I am stuck in the weirdest sort of bureaucratic inception right now, trying to figure out why @usps blocked mepic.twitter.com/leXgeWtaaq
I got something of an update. The post office thought the screenshots I was sending them to prove they blocked me were malware.pic.twitter.com/eFHe5JlZaF
Then we had a nice chat about why I was talking to them, instead of @usps, which inexplicably blocks mepic.twitter.com/teaqy5gt0c
THEN they finally seemed to get it, a day after I first reached out. The answer: 'not our problem.'pic.twitter.com/OSSTWuVzAc
I have been released from this strange bureaucratic dystopia (The Postal Service unblocked me)pic.twitter.com/itfRZxiqLe
erin mccann | Retweeted Nour A. Ali
I wonder if I can FOIA that?https://twitter.com/NoorAlAli/status/850005905546543106 …
erin mccann | added,
erin mccann | Retweeted erin mccann |
Update: I FOIA'd that. Here is the response from the USPS on that time they blocked me on Twitter 1/https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/850006286393626624 …
erin mccann | added,
The email chain I FOIA'd revealed that no one at the Postal Service actually knew why they blocked me on Twitter.pic.twitter.com/1YDV8RhBEz
Why on Earth were you blocked from USPS and how did you find out?
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