i've been rewatching young sheldon recently, and some thoughts have been formed...
proceed with caution, you have been warned:
i would just like to point out that tampering with a person's mail is considered a federal offence, and while mailmen themselves are not federal "agents" as in law enforcement, they are employed by the govt and are protected by federal law.
in fact, assaulting a mail carrier is a federal crime; THEREFORE, before the joker got that whole diplomatic-immunity-bc-he's-now-an-iranian-ambassador thing happened (and what the hell was that?!), if he had offed or even maimed a mailman (statistically probable, let's be honest here), he would have been eligible for federal custody and therefore the death penalty.
here are some pictures of information i was cross-checking after i had this realisation, everybody say thanks to gulugulu (full disclosure, this was taken from the AI overview thing that pops up, so... grain of salt, people)
additionally (most importantly):
anywho, dear wifey has been staring at a wall muttering since i unloaded this ✨interesting✨ bit of yappery, and bear is bemoaning the fact that he has not once included mailmen in his vast and varied conspiracy theories.