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Don't expect any satisfactory answers from anyone who works for USPS.

This issue is just like paying income taxes. No one working for the IRS ever seems able to cite any law that requires individuals to file income tax reports. They are unable to provide a definition of "income" that applies to wages. But if you don't file and/or don't pay, they're coming after you. In the end, the law is what the men with badges and guns, plus the judges, say that it is. They all "know" that "everyone knows that you are required to file and pay taxes".

Just like they "know" that "everyone knows firearms are banned from federal grounds".

I'm comfortable with when, where, and how I carry (or don't) on federal property or in "federal facilities". I don't advise anyone else to do the same.

Kevin

sparx wrote:I also understand that some Hewlett-Packard printers were tested with RFID tags at selected Wal-Marts last year, though I have not been able to determine the construction of those tags (beyond being RFID).

I don't know about the specific type of RFID tags being used, but there's information about Wal Mart here.

Kevin

kw5kw wrote:

KBCraig wrote:I've never seen a metal detector at a post office, but I have seem some with the same anti-theft scanners seen at every major retailer.

How can this be?

These anti-theft scanners work off of RFID not metal detection.

That's my point. They're not metal detectors.

I've never seen a metal detector at a post office, but I have seem some with the same anti-theft scanners seen at every major retailer.

TC-TX wrote:Thank you Charles - I believe you have validated every point I made...

Please report to "Reading Comprehension 101".

barres wrote:Depends on who you ask.

18 USC 930 states that carrying a firearm on Federal property is illegal, except "for hunting and other legal purposes."

Slight, but very significant, correction: it says that firearms "in federal facilities" is illegal, and then defines "federal facilities" as "buildings, or portions of buildings, where federal employees work".

This is a very important distinction when it comes to parking lots or "grounds".

Oh, and 18 USC 930 also says you can't be prosecuted unless notice is provided by a sign on the entrance.

For myself: I carry.

As do I. My small PO has no 18 USC 930 warning, just the "armed robbery" and "assaulting a postal worker" notices. Same for the major substation on this side of town. The main PO downtown is the federal building, with courts, FBI, IRS, USMS, and other federal offices, which changes the equation. Under 18 USC 930, a court can issue a rule against firearms not just in the building, but on the "appurtenant grounds".

Kevin