Apparently the US Department of DefenseWar thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.
Uh…
Hilarity of the items involved aside, the gall of the US military postal service to give orders to civilians not under their command and not even of their nation is shocking.
This is squarely on the military personnel ordering buttplugs to their work address.
If you did that anywhere else you’d get in trouble.
They practically only have a work address when they’re overseas. In some cases it’s literally the only way to get things sent to you. Why anyone knows or cares is another question entirely.
My initial thought was that this is an attempt at a prank (not a very good one) between two military members.
Why do you think it isn’t a good prank?
Too much of a pain in the ass.
Add more lube.
Then it’s not enough of a prank.
Its somewhat homophobic in a “Hurr Durr, you are gay and like to take it up the butt” way. Plus the general stigma around men using sex toys.
Everyone in the Trump admin needs a butt plug, given how full of shit they are
Why do you think it spews out their mouths?
In some fairness it sounds like the Kingdom of Bahrain are the weird ones here. But still, it sounds like all other arguments aside, she has no way of knowing if a soldier is any particular place. So asking her to stop sending to soldiers in that region is kind of pointless.
Sounds like Secretary Kegseth doesn’t have enough things to do.
Willing to bet over half of those orders are gag gifts
That’s a bad idea; Using a buttplug as a gag could leave you with a bad taste in the mouth.
Also a mild choking hazard.
Hey, don’t kink shame, some people like it like that.
Not me, but some people…
Or it will turn out the butt plugs make a great field expedient for some piece of equipment that can’t easily be gotten by the soldiers in the field.
It’s pretty standard for American commenters on social media to unthinkingly assume that American law is somehow “universal.” I guess that’s the level that the American government in general has descended to at this point.
Yeah, you see stories of Americans in foreign countries being detained or arrested and they are like “I know my rights” LOL. Clearly you don’t.
War on Buttplugs?
So what I find interesting is that this exact story was reported in CTV like a week ago, but in this one, the reasoning has changed somehow?
Originally reported, the problem was that Bahrain does not allow adult items to be shipped to them. But the adult shop said that it actually doesn’t ship to Bahrain and most of Asia because of rules like that making it more complicated to do business. Owner said that it was likely forwarded to a base (so a third party shipper,
something the shop has zero control over.)But in this one, the rationale has changed to “these objects are dangerous”, and I don’t see focus being placed on the third-party
sellershipper.edit: shipper, not seller. We don’t know if this was after market, just that it’s not directly shipped. They might actually have some amount of control over that, if that’s the case, because they would have needed to label the original package as being shipped to Bahrain.
The more I think about this story, the more I think that it’s being ramped up as a “look how the US military is interfering with canada on behalf of a middle eastern country!” instead of like “someone made a mistake by ordering something not allowed in Bahrain, and the business didn’t check whether they were allowed to ship it there or not.” I dont get what the big deal here is. This actually kinda looks bad on the business now that I take a second look at it.
Apparently the US Department of
DefenseWar thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.It’s not to stop mailing things. It’s to stop mailing things to them. That should be a basic right. I want nothing more than to be able to tell my grocery store to stop mailing me anything, and I’m sure most employers don’t want their employees having dildos delivered to their work, especially in places where possession of such items is illegal.
If you’re engaged in international business you do actually have to respect the laws of the countries you operate in.
I think the problem is that she is not sending it for no reason, they should stop ordering first :P
She could also just deny orders to any APO as a matter of policy.
Why would she want to do that?
And get sued?
For what? Using USPS is not compulsory. Having an APO/FPO is not a protected class. There are already restrictions on what can be sent to an APO (to include things that are illegal in the host country, like Bahrain). And logistics processing outside of your companies “normal” flow is not compulsory just to appease a US grunt.
There are plenty of companies that don’t send to APOs and they continue to exist without doing so just fine.
To add to this, lots of companies ship exclusively with UPS and FedEx, neither of which can deliver to APOs.
It‘s ordered and payed for by her customers. And she‘s just supposed to not mail it?
Not only that, but she doesn’t know where they’re going in the first place. These packages are definitely being sent to APO addresses and redirected to their final destination.
So those telling her to stop really dont know what theyre doing?
national sovereignty is exactly what the US is trying to discredit
it is like any narcissist the first thing they do when they want to own a person in a relationship is start neg-hitting and making demands for change to lower the self-esteem of the target.
Same shit, different diaper
