Gazebo Gazette Volume 5, Issue 16 Dated April 14, 2009
Speaking before members of the Marianna Optimist Club last week, was Postal Service Inspector, Michael Mulder, who works out of the Tallahassee Office. Mulder, however, who resides in Marianna where he grew-up and graduated from Marianna High school, and Chipola College. He went to the university at Alabama, and Florida State, earning his Masters Degree.
After completing his formal education, he tried his hand at construction work for a season, working for his father, Richard Mulder. Finding the construction work rather mundane, as a young man, he decided to move on to something a little more adventurous and found employment with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) at the Pensacola Office under President Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill Grant, "Cops on the Beat."
Following his service with Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement, he obtained a position with the U.S. Secret Service Department, and subsequently was assigned to their Jacksonville Office. Although the work was similar in nature, it did, finally, provide the opportunity to travel, and travel he did in spades. The Secret Service has the duel roll of safeguarding the nation’s financial infrastructure and payment systems to preserving the integrity of the economy, and the protection of national leaders, visiting heads of state and government, designated sites and National Special Security Events. As a special agent, Mulder carried out assignments in both areas of investigation, and protection. While performing these duties, he frequently found himself standing on the virtual threshold of history, and in many exotic places around the globe.
As stated earlier, Mulder currently works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, otherwise known as, "The Silent Service." The USPIS is primarily an investigative agency comprised of plain-clothed federal criminal investigators referred to as "Postal Inspectors" whose primary mission is "to protect the U.S. Postal Service, its employees and its customers from criminal attack, and protect the nation’s mail system from criminal misuse." As a result, Mulder has investigated mail bombs, mail fraud, and ID theft.
Because most identity theft involves the U.S. Mail, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has become a lead agency in investigating these crimes. Postal Inspectors have jurisdiction to investigate and enforce more than 200 federal statutes involving the U.S. Mail. To protect yourself: (1) Deposit outgoing mail at the Post Office, or blue U.S. Postal Service collection box, or give it directly to your letter carrier. (2) Shred or tear up unwanted documents that contain personal information before discarding them. (3) Request from the local credit bureau your entitled, free Annual Credit Report, and review it for false accounts. (4) Never give personal Information over the telephone. (5) Report ID theft online with the Federal Trade Commission at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, or call 1-877-IDTHEFT
After completing his formal education, he tried his hand at construction work for a season, working for his father, Richard Mulder. Finding the construction work rather mundane, as a young man, he decided to move on to something a little more adventurous and found employment with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) at the Pensacola Office under President Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill Grant, "Cops on the Beat."
Following his service with Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement, he obtained a position with the U.S. Secret Service Department, and subsequently was assigned to their Jacksonville Office. Although the work was similar in nature, it did, finally, provide the opportunity to travel, and travel he did in spades. The Secret Service has the duel roll of safeguarding the nation’s financial infrastructure and payment systems to preserving the integrity of the economy, and the protection of national leaders, visiting heads of state and government, designated sites and National Special Security Events. As a special agent, Mulder carried out assignments in both areas of investigation, and protection. While performing these duties, he frequently found himself standing on the virtual threshold of history, and in many exotic places around the globe.
As stated earlier, Mulder currently works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, otherwise known as, "The Silent Service." The USPIS is primarily an investigative agency comprised of plain-clothed federal criminal investigators referred to as "Postal Inspectors" whose primary mission is "to protect the U.S. Postal Service, its employees and its customers from criminal attack, and protect the nation’s mail system from criminal misuse." As a result, Mulder has investigated mail bombs, mail fraud, and ID theft.
Because most identity theft involves the U.S. Mail, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has become a lead agency in investigating these crimes. Postal Inspectors have jurisdiction to investigate and enforce more than 200 federal statutes involving the U.S. Mail. To protect yourself: (1) Deposit outgoing mail at the Post Office, or blue U.S. Postal Service collection box, or give it directly to your letter carrier. (2) Shred or tear up unwanted documents that contain personal information before discarding them. (3) Request from the local credit bureau your entitled, free Annual Credit Report, and review it for false accounts. (4) Never give personal Information over the telephone. (5) Report ID theft online with the Federal Trade Commission at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, or call 1-877-IDTHEFT
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