There are actually two separate investigative agencies within the USPS. The Postal Inspection Service investigates Mail Fraud, External Crimes (done by non-employees against the USPS or Postal Employees), drugs trafficked through the mail, and employee assaults. The Postal Police are a uniformed division of the Inspection Service and perform security at postal facilities. The USPS Office of Inspector General was formed in 1997 by the direction of Congressman Grassley. It's investigations of internal theft and financial auditing used to be done by Inspectors. But rather than having the agency head (The Chief Postal Inspector) report to the Board of Governors instead of the Postmaster General, the Congressman set up an entire new bureaucracy to support the agents who investigate internal fraud, waste and abuse. So while it sounds wasteful to have 2 investigative agencies, it was mandated by Congress, who is happy to spend the revenues of the Postal Service.

Narrowly defined, Snapter works as advertised. It really does take the warp out of images, and it will also take out fingers on the sides if you need to hold the book open while photographing. The pdf files it saves are just images, not OCR'd text. That's a big drawback.

An upper level manager with the Postal Service was holding court after a fluff-speak filled meeting with us minions. I had to pass by him and the group of suck ups that immediately formed in his vicinity.

He mistook me for a executive wannabe and asked me about energizing the dynamics in our work group. I told him that people kept talking about thinking outside the box, but since we are in the delivery business we should think ABOUT the box.

The guy looked like he just had a revelation. Something tells me he'd architected a meaningful world class enterprise strategy (and appropriated my sarcasm as a new catch phrase at the same time).