USPS Accused of Ignoring Pro-Family Pleas Regarding 'Playboy' Postcards

by Rusty Pugh
June 24, 2004

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(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist says the U.S. Postal Service won't even acknowledge the problem of pornography in the mail, much less deal with it.

Even after 25,000 parents asked the USPS to investigate Playboy's mailing of sex magazine offers to children, the agency has remain eerily quiet. Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the American Family Association, says children have received postcards offering discount prices for magazine subscriptions -- despite postal regulations forbidding it. He says the Postal Service has been "absolutely quiet" on the issue.

Randy Sharp

"We've contacted them on numerous occasions; we've sent several letters of request to investigate -- and they have done absolutely nothing," Sharp says. He notes that the Postal Service is a government entity whose employees are paid through taxpayer dollars, and that the agency is there to serve the American public and protect the public's interests -- "and our interest in our kids," he adds.

"We don't want our children getting sexually oriented advertisements from the Playboy company."

The USPS, Sharps states, is not above the law -- and should be accountable to the public. "They are not so big that they cannot be answerable to the people of the United States," he says.

"When our children are receiving ads for Playboy magazine subscriptions, the United States government should step in and enforce current federal law to require the Playboy company to warn parents that material coming to their kids is sexually oriented material."

Sharp says that he believes some of the names and addresses of children may have been acquired from those who participated in "career days" settings in public schools. He adds that to the surprise of many wives, some husbands also received the unsolicited mail from Playboy.