Apparently the US Department of DefenseWar thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.
Uh…
Hilarity of the items involved aside, the gall of the US military postal service to give orders to civilians not under their command and not even of their nation is shocking.
So, they want her to stop sending sex toys to Baharain, but
The United States Postal Service and the DOD work together through the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA), managed by the Army, to provide worldwide mail services (APO/FPO/DPO) for service members. These address formats don’t reveal the country, just the person and military unit.
So she couldn’t screen out those orders, even if she wanted to!
Yup. The system by design (to avoid deployments being decodable) doesn’t reveal the actual destination … but somehow she’s supposed to know.
I like her attitude to this whole thing.
I hope she updates her website with a 10% discount to all troops posted overseas
“Half off to DoW addresses.”
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She’s not a resident of Bahrain either, so it still holds. If the DOD wants to appease the Bahrain government, they should intercept things on their end.
No damnit, it says “ON their end” not “IN”.
DoW, I think you mean.
Doesn’t matter even with that spin. The DoW is well aware of how its military postal system works and thus knows that the sender has ZERO idea of where a package will be delivered to.
