I've never had to before, or heard of anybody else having to either. I wound up sending the package First Class rather than buying the overpriced tape. It's not so much that that was a big deal, as that the implications are a big deal.
I mean, no, I don't imagine postal workers would actually want to put a DVD or video into a player, possibly even if it were labelled "al-Qaeda Washington DC attack plans" -- but, see, that's kind of my point. People label things. Green Party literature would be obvious as such, and Greens who are pacifists have been lumped in with "terrorists" and, in some cases at least, been denied permission to board international flights. Western journalists getting too snoopy in Iraq have been subjected to abuses similar to Iraqi prisoners'. America is becoming a wasteland of slippery slopes.
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Date: 2004-05-24 09:58 pm (UTC)I mean, no, I don't imagine postal workers would actually want to put a DVD or video into a player, possibly even if it were labelled "al-Qaeda Washington DC attack plans" -- but, see, that's kind of my point. People label things. Green Party literature would be obvious as such, and Greens who are pacifists have been lumped in with "terrorists" and, in some cases at least, been denied permission to board international flights. Western journalists getting too snoopy in Iraq have been subjected to abuses similar to Iraqi prisoners'. America is becoming a wasteland of slippery slopes.