Comment by nullc

> Isn't it common sense, common decency to ask how can thousands of postal workers become thieves overnight

The whole privatized postoffice setup was a profoundly unattractive investment-- at least to those who thought of it on investment grounds (e.g. return on investment+costs)-- and so there was a presumption before the computer system went in that many must have been in it to steal.

> Is there some kind of perverse incentive for the prosecutors

One of the broken things here is that the postoffice themselves were able to criminally prosecute-- so the criminal cases lacked "have to deserve the state prosecutors time" protection.