On 3/29/2013 9:14 PM, Danny D. wrote:
Is it illegal to snap a photograph of a clerk inside a post office?
Later, I called the Officer in Charge of that Post Office, who
indignantly said I was breaking the law by taking a picture of
the clerk "without permission".

I must restate, it was clear as the sun shines that I was snapping
pictures, and NOBODY raised a word of protest - but - I must also
ask if there is ANY legal standing for the OIC's presumption that
I am guilty of breaking the law for doing so.

May I ask:
Legally, in California, in a Post Office, when nobody objects,
is it against the law to snap a photograph or otherwise record
the transaction?



Sounds like there are two issues he

Your ability to exchange stamps that you've been doing, apparently,
since Christ was a pup. The second is this BS with the photos.

Want to have some fun AND get both questions answered? Go in to visit
the O-I-C and tell him how upset you are that you may have inadvertently
run afoul of some regulation that even his subordinates were not aware
of. "To get this cleared up, why don't you show me the regulation that
prohibits photography of this sort and while you're at it, show me the
regulation that prohibits me from turning in unused postage for credit?"

If/when he refuses or starts back peddling, look him in the eye and
request, then demand, if necessary that he reach out and get the postal
inspection service involved. If this pompous jerk is constipated, that
will clear him out real fast.

I've personally used this ploy when told by somebody who didn't know
better that this or that could not be done when, in fact, I already knew
the regulation and that it COULD be done. As soon as the Inspection
service "button" was pushed, their attitude changed dramatically.

Great fun! Go for it!