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    UPS-Mitarbeiter hat Sicherheits-E-Mail verpasst und China F-35-Teile besorgen lassen

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    1. bloomberg on

      *From Bloomberg News reporter Anthony Capaccio:*

      China managed to get a hold of parts from an F-35 stealth fighter jet after a[ ](https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/UPS:US)UPS employee missed an email warning not to route the shipment through Hong Kong, according to a person briefed on the incident.

      The email from freight forwarder firm DSV said that the parts — an F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door coated in radar-absorbing material — must not transit through certain countries to comply with the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

      The shipment of warplane parts was originally meant to travel to San Francisco via South Korea and Taiwan — both US defense partners. But the shipment was late leaving Australia and was mistakenly routed via Hong Kong in an effort to speed up delivery, the person said, declining to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

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    2. SuddenFlatworm7971 on

      F-35 parts delivery has about the same workflow as my $14 thermos delivery from Amazon?

    4. Bishopjones2112 on

      Ah one missed email properly Identifies how completely fucked the system of military logistics is.

    7. Alarmed-Extension289 on

      Everything about this should be enough to permanatley ban the use of UPS (and FEDEX) from transporting sensitive equipment (or any for that matter).

      All of this sounds super fishy to me, so it accidentaly went to China last minute, and the Chinesse were expecting it? How?

    8. Literally_A_Halfling on

      I cannot *possibly* be the only person who assumed this shit would be shipped by a military courier, right?

    9. newtochas on

      If a missed email allowed this, this was only the tip of the incompetence iceburg

    10. eagle2493 on

      The idea that anyone is like “yeah man, thanks to this UPS dimwit china got our super secret plane parts” is laughable, but that’s where we are

    12. midsidephase on

      more and more the assumption that a sent email is proof enough that it has been read and acknowledged is pretty messed up.

    13. SilverNeptuneAbyss on

      >Debbie Brown was a supervisor at UPS who was responsible for handling an important shipment issue. An email containing critical information was sent to her, but she was out sick that day and never saw it. Because the email wasn’t acted on, the shipment was mishandled and the problem eventually became a bigger issue. There is some confusion about why Debbie was absent, with different explanations given about whether she had the flu, with others remembering she had a dentist appointment. Management ultimately concluded that Debbie had failed to do her job and held her responsible for the missed email and the resulting problems, and terminated her employment. There was even talk of collecting money to „help Debbie out,“ along with a consolation card, although nobody was entirely clear on where that money was going, or if she even got it.

    14. poppin-n-sailin on

      There are some unbelievably glaring issues if this security process relies on an email. This fucking reeks of someone being pinned as the fall guy to cover up a scandal. 

    16. cors8 on

      Insane how it all relied on one person apparently.

      Normal process would be to stop shipments without approval, not go ahead with shipping….

    18. CourierFive on

      Top secret US Air Force hardware and UPS worker in the same sentence.
      You know, somehow that doesn’t even surprise me, at this point.

    20. jhill515 on

      Wait… So F-35 Australian Variant parts were shipped to Hong Kong… Due to a lowly UPS employee *missing* an email? So much for ISO 9001 Compliance!

    23. hfidek on

      How did china get hold of the info? was it label “ ultra secret American weapon“?

    24. canadianwhitemagic on

      Well this is concerning. I guess i won’t be UPSing my top secret, classified fighter jet parts anymore. Time to find a new courier.

      #eyeroll

    25. readthatlastyear on

      Why are governments trusting ups to deliver confidential military parts lol

    26. giggity_giggity on

      You’d think that important security matters wouldn’t depend upon “did you get my email?”

    28. Galadeon on

      Like….. ummmm…… why does the AIR Force not have military transport flights for parts to air bases??????

    30. 12somewhere on

      It should have never fall onto the UPS worker to begin with. Some else much higher messed up.

    32. FutureThought4936 on

      Why the fuck are we relying on emails for national security instead of a bright red warning label on the fucking shipment???

    33. Nick85er on

      The ITAR statement should have been on the air waybill, wild that handling allowed this to be routed through China in any way.

       Crazy that they decided to use UPS instead of working directly with an air carrier. Oh well, Freight forwarders are gonna Freight forward

    35. NTufnel11 on

      There’s no confirmation step? You just fire off an email that this shipment is flagged as critical for national seurity and just trust they got it and and act on it?

      I know no quality team would ever approve that process, and I assume such a process is necessary to be a carrier for classified items.

      So this sounds like bullshit to me.

    36. egospiers on

      This is an institutional failure not the fault of one lowly UPS employee… such bullshit.

    37. scobeavs on

      In my industry, if you have an urgent matter or one that it’s critical that someone gets the message, sending an email is not enough. There’s a variety of reasons that an email could get missed, and as the sender who knows this, it’s my responsibility to make sure critical messages are received. The lady who got fired is clearly a scapegoat here.

    38. Loki-L on

      This sounds like the kind of thing you might actually dedicate a phone call to and not just leave with an email that may or may not get read.

    39. radium_eye on

      Of course there are internal, secure methods of transporting critical national security goods which were opted against in favor of fucking UPS, huh? Absolute clowns in charge.

    40. awesumjon on

      Who decided an email was the best method of communication? Of all things that could have been an email, this was probably not one.

    42. -waveydavey- on

      Everything he touches turns to shit. His literal goal is the same as Putin’s, destroy America

    43. CameStainedRag on

      Yeah, that’s where things fell apart. Definitely blame the UPS guy 🙄

    44. EBXLBRVEKJVEOJHARTB on

      FedEx would have left it in front of Vietnam’s door, making China wander around the neighborhood looking for it

    45. trogdan on

      That’s right. It’s the worker’s fault, always. /s

      Leaving something critical to an unsecured, no-ACK-required, asynchronous message should be a crime and whoever is responsible for making THAT judgment call is at fault here.

      Might as well have left a message on an answering machine in the branch office supply closet or sent a fax.

    46. TheRC135 on

      What the fuck is the point of a global network of military logistics if you’re just going to send highly sensitive shit by UPS?

      America has lost the fucking plot. Hard to believe this is the same country that put men on the moon.

    47. TinFoilHat_69 on

      Just removed the regulatory controls on China chips, EV’s and robots. It sad to see the world burn the free market away for facist oligarchs who tell us what we can and can’t buy.

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