Behind the Badge
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service

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Behind the Badge exhibit
The scope of the agency's mission encompasses the entire postal system and provides security for everyone's mail.
Photo by Juan Carlos Briceno
Behind the Badge exhibit
What does it take to be a postal inspector? Visitors can try their hand at a series of four interactives that highlight the skills that postal inspectors use to solve and prevent crimes: gather clues at a crime scene, match fingerprints, identify a suspect, and protect major event venues by screening mail for explosive, biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
Photo by Juan Carlos Briceno
Behind the Badge exhibit
This evidence on exhibit demonstrates some of the myriad of ways criminals have targeted the mail.
Photo by Juan Carlos Briceno
Behind the Badge exhibit
“Help Keep the Mail Safe” is a multi-user touch table that challenges visitors to distinguish fraudulent or dangerous mail from safe pieces. These are 12 common mail pieces that visitors could encounter at home or at the office. Which one should you open? Which one might empty your bank account? You decide.
Photo by Juan Carlos Briceno

Behind the Badge