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> I am kind of surprised that neither Deutsche Post[0] nor ZTO[1] nor SF Express[2] shares are up on the news.

Why would they be up on the news? They're just as likely to be engaging in the same behavior, only for a different set of government actors.

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Intercepting it in the US or within their own country is one thing. Rerouting a document being sent from Japan to China to the US multiple times is most certainly not a common thing mail services would do for intelligence agencies.

Getting a private company operating in a foreign country to do your intelligence work so blatantly is certainly news worthy. Maybe not stock price shifting news though.

I think it should affect stock price. Espionage is usually punished pretty harshly and you have no guarantee that said private company won't be charged with it in the future when the political landscape changes in the country.

If the packages really were intentionally diverted, it's entirely possible Fedex didn't knowingly participate with the spooks.

Fedex has thousands of customer service agents with the ability to change package destinations for legitimate purposes.

Is any company's security is so strong they can prevent employees from independently cooperating with governments?

Deutsche Post? Forget it. The scandal would be off the scale.

Stasi is a living memory in Germany.

Mentioned as they own DHL.

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