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Informed Delivery: The USPS Will Send You Pictures of Your Mail So You Can Know What is Coming
my mailbox ^ | 11.16.17 | chickensoup

Posted on 11/16/2017 5:46:44 PM PST by Chickensoup

Today in my mailbox I received notification of a new service. Informed Delivery see the link will send me text pictures of my mail as it travels to my delivery site.

I had thought for quite a while that the USPS tracked every piece of mail, with those little stick on bar codes. Now it confirm that they take pictures of each piece of mail. I repeat: They take pictures of our mail. There is no privacy. Ever.

Everything is documented.

Everything.

We continue the march to becoming the least free country in the history of man


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: chat; government; informeddelivery; intrusive; mail; usps
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To: bigbob

buzz killer

Just when the paranoia starts getting good you have to go and cool it off with facts and stuff.


61 posted on 11/16/2017 6:55:26 PM PST by Pelham
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To: House Atreides

That’s why, whenever possible, I don’t place my return address info on the outside of an outgoing mailpiece.

Hope you don’t ever put the wrong address on something important you are sending.


62 posted on 11/16/2017 6:55:27 PM PST by Runner4life
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To: Chickensoup

I get an email every morning with photos of all my letter-sized mail, even the junk mail. No photos of packages.


63 posted on 11/16/2017 6:59:10 PM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Chickensoup
Another tool to track who you correspond with. They are looking to log who receives mail from conservative entities such as the NRA.

And if you subscribe to High Times, best to opt for the Kindle edition.


Print edition only $29.99/yr at Amazon.

64 posted on 11/16/2017 6:59:30 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Blue Highway

I freaked out the first time I saw a picture of a package at my front door in an email. I was home at the time so it was especially creepy.


Luckily we have a gate out front but I’ve seen the photo too of the package on the front mat. Guess no more nude sunbathing on the front porch.


65 posted on 11/16/2017 6:59:55 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Chickensoup

Sorry, I was just reflexivly responding to your post to Az Joe which seemed to be contra your original point which I agree with.


66 posted on 11/16/2017 7:01:16 PM PST by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: bobk3

I like it too.

You are right about the photos only showing the outside of the envelope.


67 posted on 11/16/2017 7:07:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: ConservaTexan

And it isn’t just the NRA. Many gun owners don’t own any firearms that were sold through a FFL, so think the fact that they own them isn’t known. The USPS (essentially the federal govt.) knows if you get mail from Cabelas, Midway, Guns and Ammo, Outdoor Life, etc. It isn’t really a stretch for them (USPS and, by extension, law enforcement) to figure out who likely has firearms.


68 posted on 11/16/2017 7:11:39 PM PST by doragsda
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To: Chickensoup

I have a boring life. It’s like getting mail twice a day! Wheeeeeee!!


69 posted on 11/16/2017 7:12:34 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Chickensoup

Seinfeld: Hey, I’ve been back four days. I want my mail.
Elaine: It’s mostly bills, magazines, and junk mail anyway.
Seinfeld: Elaine, that’s what mail is. Without bills, magazines, and junk mail, there is no mail.

And to steal a line from Shakespeare:

“Who photographs my mail photographs trash.”


70 posted on 11/16/2017 7:24:28 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: ConservaTexan

Then they should know to keep the junk mail out of my mailbox.


71 posted on 11/16/2017 7:33:22 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Chickensoup

I rarely put my return address.


72 posted on 11/16/2017 7:35:57 PM PST by tiki
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To: doragsda

molon labe


73 posted on 11/16/2017 7:38:33 PM PST by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“delivery confirmed packages are scanned as “delivered” at 2am and yet they never make it to my home.”

Mine said, OUT FOR DELIVERY... TIMEOUT 2 AM.
Or something similar? For about a year about six or seven, GONE. Many delivered by strangers, they said it was missent to their house??

Each time the Post Office had the same person give the exact word for word BS. Each time I told her she said the same thing on all the previous losses.

The woman and the letter carrier were both transferred.
No problems since.

If only UPS could shape up! The jamoke ROLLED my new workstation down the sidewalk!!! Lucky HP knew about this type; six inches of foam inside extra heavy cardboard.
Fedx, never a problem.


74 posted on 11/16/2017 7:41:57 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wonder how much the photography of packages is to keep track of claims made by customers that all disappear at the same point of travel.

“Neuman!”


75 posted on 11/16/2017 7:47:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: JohnyBoy
They’ve been doing it for 30 years for sorting purposes.

And yet they couldn't track Ted Kazinsky's packages.

76 posted on 11/16/2017 7:48:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800><p><h1>NYC 9-11 Memorial 09/11/2016</h1>)
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To: doragsda

Ask for a plain brown wrapper.


77 posted on 11/16/2017 7:49:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Leaning Right
Ain’t that the truth. I track important packages using USPS tracking numbers, and the USPS tracking website. The website told me that my latest package was delivered to me, in my mailbox, last Friday at 3:11 PM. Very specific, eh?

I actually got it four days later.

Happens to me all the time when I order from Amazon. The USPS games the system to keep their contract with Amazon.

78 posted on 11/16/2017 7:50:12 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Chickensoup

Keep in mind the exponential increase in package volume since USPS began Amazon deliveries, this without route adjustments on already overburdened routes. Carriers, especially on the rural side, are quitting in droves lately, it’s becoming an impossible situation especially in most bedroom community post offices. It’s time the USPS went back to it’s constitutional mandate of delivering real mail, instead of being an advertising agency and trinket delivery service.


79 posted on 11/16/2017 7:51:05 PM PST by wolfman
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To: OldMissileer

> The USPS games the system to keep their contract with Amazon. <

You really might be on to something there. Most of my late deliveries were from Amazon Prime. The USPS gaming the system to pretend to meet the two-day delivery promise...yes, I can see that happening.

And I was about to blame Global Warming.


80 posted on 11/16/2017 7:58:15 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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