Hiccup to WikiLeaks' snail mail amid all the fuss

[Turborama]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Daniel Flitton
December 7, 2010

PSSST. Want to share a secret? Here is the place to send it. But be quick. This postbox to contact WikiLeaks in Australia is about to shut down.

Australia Post insists its sudden decision to close the University of Melbourne Post Office has nothing to do with the fact that Box 4080 is the Australian postal address for submissions to the whistleblower website.

But an announcement last Friday said the branch would close on December 17.

Coincidence?

Or has the ever-closing security net around WikiLeaks been tightened a notch further?

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/hiccup-to-wiki-snail-mail-amid-all-the-fuss-20101206-18my9.html

[Downwinder]

1. Also the address for donations.

[villager]

2. Wow -- the empire is in full meltdown over this. Quite telling, indeed...

n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. They are going to close a whole Post Office?

Somebody at our State Dept. has been very very busy.

[TheMadMonk]

4. A post office in one of the largest and more prominent universities...

...in the country.

Something else. A hell of a lot of AP outlets in Australia are privately owned franchises. And I believe franchise tenders are offered as a matter of course before closure of those outlets that ARE still owned by AP itself.

I do not know whether or not the university outlet was a franchise, but if not, I would think it highly suspect, if that outlet was closed without putting out a franchise tender first.