If you don’t believe this, then maybe believe the truck rental companies that were charging up to 10x for outgoing vehicles than incoming ones. There are more people moving out than moving in.
People fish mail out of USPS collection boxes (I’ve witnessed it myself). It’s gotten so bad in my neighborhood that at close of business they lock the collection boxes outside of the USPS buildings in my area.
Ah. That's not really physically possible with those we have here - short of wrecking the thing or picking the lock.
I don't see why anyone would though. A bunch of stolen outgoing mail is going to contain nothing but boredom. Certainly nothing you could turn into easy cash.
Though I could picture vandals throwing firecrackers or something into them. In fact I remember something about a PO box burning down being on the local news some time ago. It certainly happens.
A lot of the places from this article feel lawless in person. I backpack and hike a lot of parks in the US, and only carry a firearm in the southern part of Arizona. There’s hidden camera footage on YouTube of smugglers in the mountains an hour north of the border, carrying automatic weapons. There’s sections north of the border that have been closed to the public because the government is unable to deal with the crime there. My cousin who lives there confronted a trespasser on their property who was arrested an hour later for murdering someone the night before in the national park. Every theory in this article seems plausible.
That’s not what lynching is. Lynching is mob justice without a trial. The name came from Charles Lynch, who punished Loyalists during the American Revolution.
Also the very vocal anti-environmentalist company CEO Samuel Rotrosen is barely mentioned. Montrose executives were basically exaggerated movie villains in their defense of dumping DDT. Unapologetic doesn’t begin to cover it.
I've tried googling for Samuel Rotrosen, but came up with almost nothing. If I had to guess, then someone payed (a lot of) money to scrub this name off the internet. It's pretty creepy, but also impressive what you can do if you're determined.
This guy had an article posted in the New York Times in 1972...I am pretty confident he was not scrubbed from the internet and was instead just dead before the internet and no one has cared enough about him to add much content. Note that the New York Times article was the first search returned on Google for me, so not very hidden.
I think they realized that deleting tweets really helps shut down conspiracy theories. The main Twitter account I followed for videos of the pandemic situation in China at the beginning of 2020 was banned just before covid really hit the US. Numerous blue-check accounts (including some fringe “journalists”) had reported it for misinformation and several claimed the situation was not that bad in China and that the videos were somehow doctored. He stopped posting anything about the pandemic on his Facebook and Instagram accounts out of fear of having those permanently banned as well. So censorship can work. The saddest thing is that Twitter banned his account without any government intervention.
EDIT: Not all of reporters I mentioned were fringe. Two were from the Atlantic and Buzzfeed, and both claimed that the Coronavirus situation was overblown and that people saying otherwise were fear-mongering. Helping them out were a couple of epidemiologists who were also claiming that the coronavirus danger was overhyped. This was late January 2020.
