malfeasance
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USPS has law enforcement tasked to it. 2 kinds. The first is USPS inspectors (see Millard's post above). But there are only so many of those. Second is task forces made up of local PD guys from all around that get "tasked" to work at various USPS facilities.Interesting. I wonder if USPS is even more lenient then
These guys use dogs and look at packages for all sorts of things that indicate "suspicion."
They are full time, several of them, at the USPS sorting facility, deciding which packages catch their interest.
UPS and FedEx also have local law enforcement tasked to some of their facilities, again, several officers, full time, trying to catch contraband.
This is not a guess or some idle speculation about how this works. I am pretty sure I posted some Fourth Amendment case law here in the last few years with law enforcement tasked to a FedEx facility - an appellate court examining a Fourth Amendment issue reciting the facts about the package and whether the officers had probable cause. But the point here is that the officers in that case were assigned to the Fed Ex facility.
The USPS teams are very active and believe wholeheartedly in what they are doing. They are diligent and push the rules as much as they legally can get away with, because they believe in their mission.