Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'

Post by Havoc » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 12:16 AM UTC

buyx wrote: post #167

Havoc wrote: post #158

Postbank is a subsidiary of South Africa's Post Office. An entity that is bankrupt and barely functional despite having a state mandated monopoly on an entire country's postal system. As per article they're also running the SASSA social grant system which is a train wreck in itself and has been buried in legal disputes for years (not random small cases...a challenge to the legitimacy of their core mandate on grants).…

To clarify: no one is compelled to use the South African Post Office. There are dozens of courier companies that offer much better service (legally). The SAPO operating model is the same as many/most other legacy postal services around the world, but more incompetently executed.

Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

panopticon wrote: post #162

swimfar wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like a better idea than flying with AR-15 parts. Less likely to scare people, and less likely to raise flags or get put on some list.

I feel like a flare gun is more likely to scare than a lower receiver. A flare gun immediately looks like "a gun" whereas a block of metal doesn't look very threatening (assuming you don't have a tacti-cool one with skulls and garbage on it). I only flew with a stripped lower once, and the baggage attendant at the Delta counter had to wave a TSA agent over because they did not believe it was a firearm. I never had an…