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Tony J oy Manager Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Consumer & Industry Contact Privacy Act Request 5 U.S.C. 552/552a
United States Postal Service
North Florida District CC: J ohn F. Harkness, Executive Director
1100 Kings Road The Florida Bar, @ jharkness@flabar.org
J acksonville, FL 32203-0005
Dear Mr. J oy:
This letter my FOIA/Privacy Act Request for records pertaining to me, including but not limited
to the assault May 1, 2012 by Countryside CPU employee Sue; Koni Updyke and Countryside
Contract Postal Unit (CPU) Yours Truly Gift and Card; and postal employee Robert Henriques.
Your letter to me October 1, 2012 (enclosed) deprived me of Postal Service in compliance with
the Postal Clause of the United States Constitution, and 18 U.S.C. Chapter 83, which has
obstructed, inter alia, U.S. Certified Mail from The Florida Bar. (18 U.S.C. 1701)
This is also my Privacy Act request for records of the U.S. Postal Service logging my mail for
law enforcement known as the mail covers program. The New York Times reported J uly 3, 2013
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement, copy enclosed.
Mr. J oy, I can live without the U.S. Postal Service, which is a reflection on management, and
CPUs, not regular postal employees. Since I was assaulted May 1, 2012 at Countryside CPU, I
changed carriers to United Parcel Service (UPS) and am very satisfied. But getting U.S. Certified
Mail is another matter, and I demand strict compliance with the Postal Clause, Article I, Section
8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, and 18 U.S.C. Chapter 83, Postal Service. I had
planned to send this letter months ago, but have been delayed by disability and other priorities.
The Florida Bar sent me U.S. Certified Mail that was not delivered. Copies of the PS Form 3849
are enclosed. Your letter to me October 1, 2012 prevents me, on information and belief, from
lawfully receiving U.S. Certified Mail at the Paddock Branch. You wrote October 1, 2012,
It is your responsibility to retrieve items requiring a signature from Yours Truly, same as
you would have in the past. Unclaimed accountable items will be returned once time
limits are exhausted in accordance with mail handling requirements.
Someone attempted to overturn your mandate captioned above, and redirected my mail to the
Paddock Branch, which may violate 18 U.S.C. 1701 - Obstruction of mails generally.
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any
carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than six months, or both.
Tony J oy, Manager Consumer & Industry Contact J uly 24, 2014
North Florida District, U.S. Postal Service Page - 2
Please take notice that I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. I am not licensed to
practice law, and I did not attend law school. If you have specific questions related to any thing
in this letter, you are encouraged to consult an attorney who can investigate the particular
circumstances of your situation.
That said, The Florida Bar generally sends U.S. Certified Mail to meet some legal requirement.
In this matter I demand strict compliance with the law, and your mandate of October 1, 2012.
Unfortunately you failed to adequately resolve the matter with Koni Updyke and Countryside
Contract Postal Unit (CPU) Yours Truly Gift and Card. Postal employee Robert Henriques made
matters worse as documented in the correspondence, which is posted on Scribd at CPUfail,
http://www.scribd.com/CPUfail
Among other things Mr. Henriques refused to accept my correspondence in this matter sent by
UPS, which may also violate 18 U.S.C. 1701. Henriques sent my communication back
unopened, which is still sitting unopened in my file. Okay, fine. Send me the FOIA/PA records
and Ill try and figure out what is going on. I suspect Koni Updyke had some kind of running
joke at my expense related to disability/stigma that served as entertainment for her and the gang.
That may be a hate crime, or violate disability law such as The Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
In any event, I demand the U.S. Postal Service construct a post office in my area in compliance
with the Postal Clause of the United States Constitution, and 18 U.S.C. Chapter 83. Once the
new post office is operational, Ill be able to get my mail from The Florida Bar, and anyone else.
Declaration of Neil J . Gillespie - 28 U.S.C. 1746(2)
1. My name is Neil J . Gillespie. I am over 18 years of age. I live in Ocala Florida.
2. An image of my drivers license is provided below for the purpose of identification.
3. I request that a copy of contents of the file in the above be provided to me, and request
any fees be removed since this a personal request, not a commercial request.
4. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on J uly 24, 2014 by Neil J . Gillespie.
Neil J . Gillespie
8092 SW 115th Loop
Ocala, Florida 34481
Telephone: 235-854-7807
Email: neilgillespie@mfi.net
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Tony J oy, Manager Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Consumer & Industry Contact Privacy Act Request 5 U.S.C. 552/552a
United States Postal Service
Post Office Box 40005
North Florida District CC: J ohn F. Harkness, Executive Director
1100 Kings Road The Florida Bar, @ jharkness@flabar.org
J acksonville, FL 32203-0005
RE: ADDENDUM to my letter to you dated July 24, 2014
Dear Mr. J oy:
This is an Addendum to my letter to you dated J uly 24, 2014.
This is a FOIA/PA request for records showing compliance with civil rights law by Countryside
Contract Postal Unit (CPU) Yours Truly Gift and Card; Koni Updyke former CPU
owner/operator; and Andrew and Therese Solli, CPU owner/operator, including,
Federal Compliance Assurance in which it assures the U.S. Postal Service that it/they will
fully comply with all requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended.
I believe Countryside Contract Postal Unit (CPU) Yours Truly Gift and Card receives federal
financial assistance from the U.S. Postal Service and is also subject to the provisions of,
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended,
the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended;
What has Countryside Contract Postal Unit (CPU) Yours Truly Gift and Card done to comply
with laws prohibiting discriminating on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, national
origin, disability or veteran status?
Thank you in advance for the courtesy of a response.
Sincerely,
Neil J . Gillespie
8092 SW 115th Loop
Ocala, Florida 34481
Telephone: 235-854-7807
Email: neilgillespie@mfi.net
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October 1, 2012
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Dear Mr. Gillespie:
I received your letter dated September 17, 2012.
Please accept my sincere apology for not providing you with a clear understanding of who is currently
acting as the Ocala Postmaster. Kevin Atkinson is the acting Postmaster (a.k.a. Officer-In-Charge) for
the Ocala Post Office. As shared in my previous correspondence to you, Mr. Atkinson conducted a
review of the Countryside Contract Postal Unit (CPU).
I again have confirmed through Mr. Atkinson that the CPU is under new ownership. Andrew and
Therese Solli, as he understands, purchased the CPU from Koni Updyke.
It is your responsibility to retrieve items requiring a signature from Yours TrUly, same as you would have
in the past. Unclaimed accountable items will be returned once time limits are exhausted in accordance
with mail handling requirements.
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J uly 3, 2013
By RON NIXON
WASHINGTON Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a
handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay
special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.
Show all mail to supv supervisor for copying prior to going out on the street, read the
card. It included Mr. Pickerings name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored.
The word confidential was highlighted in green.
It was a bit of a shock to see it, said Mr. Pickering, who with his wife owns a small bookstore in
Buffalo. More than a decade ago, he was a spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, a radical
environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Postal officials
subsequently confirmed they were indeed tracking Mr. Pickerings mail but told him nothing else.
As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card
offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States
Postal Service.
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a
vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal
Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the
United States about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves
the images.
Together, the two programs show that postal mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the
National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail.
The mail covers program, used to monitor Mr. Pickering, is more than a century old but is still
considered a powerful tool. At the request of law enforcement officials, postal workers record
information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered. (Opening the mail
would require a warrant.) The information is sent to the law enforcement agency that asked for it.
Tens of thousands of pieces of mail each year undergo this scrutiny.
The Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program was created after the anthrax attacks in late 2001
that killed five people, including two postal workers. Highly secret, it seeped into public view last
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month when the F.B.I. cited it in its investigation of ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. It enables the Postal Service to retrace the path of mail at the
request of law enforcement. No one disputes that it is sweeping.
In the past, mail covers were used when you had a reason to suspect someone of a crime, said
Mark D. Rasch, who started a computer crimes unit in the fraud section of the criminal division of
the Justice Department and worked on several fraud cases using mail covers. Now it seems to be,
Lets record everyones mail so in the future we might go back and see who you were
communicating with. Essentially youve added mail covers on millions of Americans.
Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and an author, said whether it was a postal worker
taking down information or a computer taking images, the program was still an invasion of
privacy.
Basically they are doing the same thing as the other programs, collecting the information on the
outside of your mail, the metadata, if you will, of names, addresses, return addresses and postmark
locations, which gives the government a pretty good map of your contacts, even if they arent
reading the contents, he said.
But law enforcement officials said mail covers and the automatic mail tracking program are
invaluable, even in an era of smartphones and e-mail.
In a criminal complaint filed June 7 in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the
F.B.I. said a postal investigator tracing the ricin letters was able to narrow the search to Shannon
Guess Richardson, an actress in New Boston, Tex., by examining information from the front and
back images of 60 pieces of mail scanned immediately before and after the tainted letters sent to
Mr. Obama and Mr. Bloomberg showing return addresses near her home. Ms. Richardson had
originally accused her husband of mailing the letters, but investigators determined that he was at
work during the time they were mailed.
In 2007, the F.B.I., the Internal Revenue Service and the local police in Charlotte, N.C., used
information gleaned from the mail cover program to arrest Sallie Wamsley-Saxon and her
husband, Donald, charging both with running a prostitution ring that took in $3 million over six
years. Prosecutors said it was one of the largest and most successful such operations in the
country. Investigators also used mail covers to help track banking activity and other businesses the
couple operated under different names.
Other agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health
and Human Services, have used mail covers to track drug smugglers and Medicare fraud.
Its a treasure trove of information, said James J. Wedick, a former F.B.I. agent who spent 34
years at the agency and who said he used mail covers in a number of investigations, including one
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that led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California on corruption charges. Looking
at just the outside of letters and other mail, I can see who you bank with, who you communicate
with all kinds of useful information that gives investigators leads that they can then follow up on
with a subpoena.
But, he said: It can be easily abused because its so easy to use and you dont have to go through a
judge to get the information. You just fill out a form.
For mail cover requests, law enforcement agencies submit a letter to the Postal Service, which can
grant or deny a request without judicial review. Law enforcement officials say the Postal Service
rarely denies a request. In other government surveillance programs, like wiretaps, a federal judge
must sign off on the requests.
The mail cover surveillance requests are granted for about 30 days, and can be extended for up to
120 days. There are two kinds of mail covers: those related to criminal activity and those requested
to protect national security. Criminal activity requests average 15,000 to 20,000 per year, said law
enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are prohibited by law
from discussing them. The number of requests for antiterrorism mail covers has not been made
public.
Law enforcement officials need warrants to open the mail, although President George W. Bush
asserted in a signing statement in 2007 that the federal government had the authority to open mail
without warrants in emergencies or in foreign intelligence cases.
Court challenges to mail covers have generally failed because judges have ruled that there is no
reasonable expectation of privacy for information contained on the outside of a letter. Officials in
both the Bush and Obama administrations, in fact, have used the mail-cover court rulings to justify
the N.S.A.s surveillance programs, saying the electronic monitoring amounts to the same thing as a
mail cover. Congress briefly conducted hearings on mail cover programs in 1976, but has not
revisited the issue.
The program has led to sporadic reports of abuse. In May 2012, Mary Rose Wilcox, a Maricopa
County supervisor in Arizona, was awarded nearly $1 million by a federal judge after winning a
lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The sheriff, known for his immigration raids, had obtained mail
covers from the Postal Service to track her mail. The judge called the investigation into Ms. Wilcox
politically motivated because she had been a frequent critic of Mr. Arpaios, objecting to what she
considered the targeting of Hispanics in his immigration sweeps. The case is being appealed.
In the mid-1970s the Church Committee, a Senate panel that documented C.I.A. abuses, faulted a
program created in the 1950s in New York that used mail covers to trace and sometimes open mail
going to the Soviet Union from the United States.
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A suit brought in 1973 by a high school student in New Jersey, whose letter to the Socialist Workers
Party was traced by the F.B.I. as part of an investigation into the group, led to a rebuke from a
federal judge.
Postal officials refused to discuss either mail covers or the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking
program.
Mr. Pickering says he suspects that the F.B.I. requested the mail cover to monitor his mail because
a former associate said the bureau had called with questions about him. Last month, he filed a
lawsuit against the Postal Service, the F.B.I. and other agencies, saying they were improperly
withholding information.
A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. in Buffalo declined to comment.
Mr. Pickering said that although he was arrested two dozen times for acts of civil disobedience and
convicted of a handful of misdemeanors, he was never involved in the arson attacks the Earth
Liberation Front carried out. He said he became tired of focusing only on environmental activism
and moved back to Buffalo to finish college, open his bookstore, Burning Books, and start a family.
Im no terrorist, he said. Im an activist.
Mr. Pickering has written books sympathetic to the liberation front, but he said his political views
and past association should not make him the target of a federal investigation. Im just a guy who
runs a bookstore and has a wife and a kid, he said.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: J uly 3, 2013
An earlier version of this article misstated the Justice Department position once held by Mark Rasch.
He started a computer crimes unit in the criminal divisions fraud section, but he was not the head of
its computer crimes unit, which was created after his departure.
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