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User ID: 41856067 United States 07/04/2013 09:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement [ link to www.nytimes.com] Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, but that is only a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images. Together, the two programs show that snail mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail. The mail covers program, used to monitor Mr. Pickering, is more than a century old but is still considered a powerful tool. At the request of law enforcement officials, postal workers record information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered. (Actually opening the mail requires a warrant.) The information is sent to whatever law enforcement agency asked for it. Tens of thousands of pieces of mail each year undergo this scrutiny. The Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program was created after the anthrax attacks in late 2001 that killed five people, including two postal workers. Highly secret, it seeped into public view last month when the F.B.I. cited it in its investigation of ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. It enables the Postal Service to retroactively track mail correspondence at the request of law enforcement. No one disputes that it is sweeping. |
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User ID: 41856067 United States 07/04/2013 10:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement |
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User ID: 70671065 United States 12/08/2015 07:42 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement All of this, and still, drugs are everywhere. If fact, drugs are not only everywhere, they are cheaper and more potent than ever before. Brawndo's got electrolytes. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68410606 United States 12/08/2015 07:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement who uses mail anymore??? I thought the post office went out of business. |
henry hill User ID: 70274816 Italy 12/08/2015 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement i heard about this
so i grabbed my postman off the street grabbed him by the tie dragged him to the corner pizza shop and shoved his head right up to the pizza oven door and said any more letters addressed to me go to the coppers and into the oven you will go.
that stopped that problem i don't even get bills anymore come to think of it i don't even see that mailman anymore |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70564158 United States 12/08/2015 08:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement The US Post Office has gotten increasingly creepy and 'Gestapo'. I get the same feeling from them as I do by the TSA...that they are watching you and your demeanor to 'profile' you (whether you are angry or anxious, etc.).
Had one postal worker question me repeatedly about what was in my package because it was books and I wanted to send it book rate instead of the expensive "Priority" which they push on you, whether you want it or not. Even if you ask to send it 'the least expensive way'...the least expensive routes are no longer existent unless you ask for them specifically...then you get grilled as if you are criminal.
One time, when I agreed to have a package sent priority, the worker proceeded to open my package and put it in a priority box, so that he could see what was in my package!
Bad vibe in there. I try to avoid the Post Office if I possibly can. If it's the same cost as UPS, then why not go with the better service? |