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Sunday 20 February 2011
American postal censorship?
Last year, whilst working in University of California, Los Angeles, a friend tried to post me this book: When Atheism Becomes a Religion by Chris Hedges, that she found in a Borders bargain bin. Two weeks later it was returned to her with "Unauthorized Circulation: Religious Content (Int'l) RTS" written on the package. She kept the packaging and just recently gave it and the book to me in person.
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That's awful, especially since it was being sent from the US to the UK - two countries with what we like to think of as free speech. I had no idea you couldn't post a religious book out of the US!
ReplyDeleteAs a long time collector of postal censorship I find this very interesting. If this indeed was a governmental action it is extremely, extremely rare that there is not an official label (quoting the reason and law) or hand stamp. The only examples I have found in the last 20 years have been from small isolated units of the navy or military. Even emergency civil censorship has been more 'official' looking.
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