Postal Service Giant Ammo Purchase

[bhdpal]

I am trying to verify this information that I received in an email. Has anyone else read this or heard this from any reliable news source?

Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase February 6, 2014

Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo (Info Wars) – The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future. The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition. On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on theFederal Business Opportunities websiteasking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges.

Could one of our NRA Reps validate this info as either true or false?

 

[DEX]

Yup, coming back on if that's true...

 

[BlackBart]

Now we won't be able to get .22LR for 40 more years!

 

[DEX]

I am trying to verify this information that I received in an email. Has anyone else read this or heard this from any reliable news source?

Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase February 6, 2014

Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo (Info Wars) – The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future. The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition. On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on theFederal Business Opportunities websiteasking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges.

Could one of our NRA Reps validate this info as either true or false?

They'll probably get FedEx to ship it to them...

 

[Boom Boom]

There goes my supply of .41 Short. Doom!

 

[Rack&Roll]

Someone probably saw it on Drudge Report:

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-postal-service-announces-giant-ammo-purchase/

It appears at this stage just to be a "sign-in" request for ammo companies that can supply the USPS Postal Inspectors, who are armed and have to qualify at the range.

There's no doubt the US Gov. is stacking ammunition, most of it FMJ rounds for the frequent qualifying, but the amount of hollow-point rounds being delivered raises eyebrows...

 

[hodgepodge]

No problems. It's just for "training". Now, please get back in line.

 

[EL1227]

I wonder if they'll ask ...

No problems. It's just for "training". Now, please get back in line.

Is there anything 'hazardous' in the package, before it's sent ?

 

[pbharvey]

You can't go postal without ammo.

 

[Jim12]

The postal service is broke.

Why is it spending its last dime to buy ammo? In preparation for the day when it has to admit to the world that its "Forever" stamp isn't?

 

[Doctor_M]

But they can't carry in a post office, right :-)

 

[ToBeFree]

Good Point

But they can't carry in a post office, right :-)

Assorted Small Arms Ammunition Solicitation

I liked how they added "This is a standard purchase of ammunition to meet the law enforcement needs of the United States Postal Inspection Service and Postal Police."

Wonder if they started catching flax?
Also how does this relate to previous ammo requests? Is it the normal amount?

 

[abean4187]

Be skeptical of infowars. It is a loony bin website run by people that most likely would register as mentally insane if they were ever mentally evaluated.

 

[Doctor_M]

As ToBeFree posted, there is a Pre-solicitation notice out with a response date of February 10th, and a "Notice of Intent to Solicit Proposals" dated Jan 31st from USPS Supply Management (signed Karen Kirkpatrick, Purchasing & Supply Management specialist). It is real.

 

[Rack&Roll]

InfoWars headlines and articles can sound wacko, but often the documents they dig up are valid--but interpreted in the most extreme way.

Their favorite focus: FEMA concentration camps.

 

[RavensChick]

My cousin's husband is Postal Police and he does carry a firearm. Besides an additional dent in ammo supplies, no conspiracy here.

 

[dist1646]

Wonder if the postal service still has those Thompsons?

 

[Mooseman]

Well, it has been a while since we had a good old fashioned postal shooting. Do youngsters even know the expression "going postal"?

 

[Tungsten]

In related news, I am now selling my stash of .22 for $8/round. This is a bargain and I would never gouge other members.

 

[Doctor_M]

Well, it has been a while since we had a good old fashioned postal shooting. Do youngsters even know the expression "going postal"?

Do young people even use the mail? Here is a list of "postal" events from Wikipedia:


Edmond, Oklahoma in 1986

On August 20, 1986, 14 employees were shot and killed and six wounded at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office by Patrick Sherrill, a postman who then committed suicide with a shot to the forehead. This incident is believed to have coined the term "going postal".


Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1991

A former United States postal worker, Joseph M. Harris, killed his former supervisor, Carol Ott, and killed her boyfriend, Cornelius Kasten Jr., at their home. The following morning, on October 10, 1991, Harris shot and killed two mail handlers, Joseph M. VanderPaauw, 59, of Prospect Park, N.J., and Donald McNaught, 63, of Pompton Lakes, N.J. at the Ridgewood, New Jersey Post Office.


Royal Oak, Michigan in 1991

The U.S. post office in Royal Oak
On November 14, 1991 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Thomas McIlvane killed five people, including himself, with a Ruger 10/22 rifle in Royal Oak's post office, after being fired from the Postal Service for "insubordination." He had been previously suspended for getting into altercations with postal customers on his route.


Double event in 1993

Two shootings took place on the same day, May 6, 1993, a few hours apart. At a post office in Dearborn, Michigan, Lawrence Jasion wounded three and killed one, and subsequently killed himself. In Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun killed his mother, then shot two postal workers dead. As a result of these two shootings, in 1993 the Postal Service created 85 Workplace Environment Analysts for domicile at its 85 postal districts. These new positions were created to help with violence prevention and workplace improvement. In February 2009, the Postal Service unilaterally eliminated these positions as part of its downsizing efforts.


Goleta, California, in 2006

Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, killed six postal employees before committing suicide with a handgun, on the evening of January 30, 2006, at a large postal processing facility in Goleta, California. Police later also identified a seventh victim dead in a condominium complex in Goleta where San Marco once lived. According to media reports, the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems. Her choice of victims may have also been racially motivated; San Marco had a previous history of racial prejudice, and tried to obtain a business license for a newspaper of her own ideas, called The Racist Press, in New Mexico. This incident is believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out in the United States by a woman.


Baker City, Oregon, in 2006

Grant Gallaher, a letter carrier in Baker City, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the April 4, 2006 murder of his supervisor.[13] He reportedly brought his .357 Magnum revolver to the city post office with the intention of killing his postmaster. Arriving at the parking lot, he reportedly ran over his supervisor several times. Subsequently he went into the post office looking for his postmaster. Not finding the postmaster, he went back out to the parking lot and shot his supervisor several times at close range, ostensibly to make sure she was dead. He then reportedly fired several more bullets into the supervisor's car. Grant Gallaher reportedly was on a new route for three weeks and had felt pressured by a week-long work-time study and an extra 20 minutes added to his new route.[citation needed] On the day of his rampage, he reportedly was ahead of schedule on his route and his supervisor brought him more mail to deliver. He allegedly decided to take the matter up with his postmaster on his cell phone and then went home to get his .357 Magnum revolver to exact his revenge. The work climate had reportedly improved from what it was in 1998, the year a 53-year-old union steward at the Baker City post office committed suicide.