[FedCom] USPS Inspectors

[Ken]

Great Post Singal 500!!!!

Of course the other question would be or perhaps assumption should be "How 
do you communicate with your office?" -- The answer most likely would be 
cellphone and text messaging!!!!  Investigative agencies overall have less 
need to use radios for communications and  use cellphones as the primary 
communications device.  In my area generally USPS Inspectors may use the 
radio when they are mobile just to tell dispatch they are mobile & than when 
they arrive at their destination they will also call in to dispatch to let 
them know they will be out of the vehicle.  Other than that, the radio comms 
are sparse.  Approximately 2 to 3 years ago they had a raid in the 
Northampton MA area involving an individual that was receiving children's 
pornography and when they executed the warrant discovered some pipe bomb 
were being manufactured.  At that time I did monitor some other than 
"routine" activity.  Additionally last year the Bulk Mail Sorting Facility 
in Springfield MA had a hazmat exercise and the radio system repeater was 
active at that time.  There also was an indication that USPS has regional 
special "evidence & removal" team that are sent into the building to remove 
hazmat material.  The team was using simplex operation.   So it is possible 
that simplex operations may be used car/car or portable/portable more often 
than using the repeater.  Here in the New England area, I get the impression 
that repeaters are tied into one another with an investigative zone (which 
is normally by state).

As a side note, at work I always talk with our US Postal delivery personnel, 
and noticed that even though they park the delivery vehicle on a flat 
parking area, they still chock the back wheel.   So I asked one of them 
about this and was told that at times the Postal Inspectors run surveillance 
on them and chocking the wheels (as well as locking the truck if you are 
going to be, I believe 10 feet away or the truck isn't in under constant 
view of the driver).

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Signal500 at aol.com>
To: <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: [FedCom] USPS Inspectors


>I ran into an old friend of mine who is a USPS Inspector in SW Missouri.  I
> asked if I could look at the radio in her Chevrolet Impala.  The control 
> head
> is mounted in the glove compartment and is a Motorola Astro XTL5000.  The 
> FM
> antenna on the car is also the antenna for the radio.  I'm not completely 
> sure,
> but I think the radio is on UHF, because there is still a analog USPS 
> repeater
> on 414.425.  She said that she hasn't used the radio since she got the car 
> [2
> years ago].
>