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
so...why do the keep the pictures?
The problem will be when they screw up and send your neighbors (or total strangers) pictures of your mail.
It’ll happen. It’s the post office.
I don’t care if the gubbermint looks at all my correspondence. I have nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of. Only negative aspect is, it is a waste of tax payer money to snoop on me, who has not even had a traffic violation in 50 years.
Recently I had to educate the IRS agent on why my cashing out of an annuity was not a fully taxable event, because it was mostly return of capital. I had to educate her by giving her an example, such as placing $100 in a savings account, receiving $2 in interest, then withdrawing $102. Only the interest is taxable. The other $100 is return of capital. Our government is a bloated massive bloody joke.
This Neanderthal.
And the hundreds at the post office today.
> And the post office would still shrug when the delivery confirmed packages are scanned as “delivered” at 2am and yet they never make it to my home. <
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.
Or the opposite and you see your package at the front door that is the wrong address.
Yes. And for some reason I’m getting someone else’s mail scans - my neighbors - so I can know EXACTLY what mail he receives and from whom.
>but they keep the information. That is the rub.
So? I assume anything the feds get from me is going to be stored somewhere. It’s a picture of the envelope, not the contents of the mail. It’s been used in the past to track down where threatening letters came from or to find white powder hoaxes.
I’d be more worried if they started putting cameras on every public mailbox, which I believe the UK has done.
Great service. I wish they started it earlier.
You people realize that the pictures are of the outside of the package, not the inside, and that the pictures will be harder for people to see than neighbors being able to look at packages outside your door?
not too bright, are you?
They also can read the contents.
Still more private than e-mail.
Or posts on political websites.
since we only have one mailbox in town and It is by the post office security cameras I would say that day is here.
>Yes. And for some reason I’m getting someone else’s mail scans - my neighbors - so I can know EXACTLY what mail he receives and from whom.
Wait, you can get mail scans? I’d love never having to check my mail again and just an email of it. 99% of the stuff I get is garbage.
Pretty bright.
However wanting to see the upcoming mail, sounds like a time waster for the perennially stupid.
>since we only have one mailbox in town and It is by the post office security cameras I would say that day is here.
If it doesn’t scan the letter on the way down the collection heap then there’s no way to link the letter to you.
they had to have had access from the USPS...
You can also check on the post office web site - informed delivery - which shows mail and packages. With the packages, they track from the time they are put in the system and show the expected date. That is protected by user name and password.
Hmmm...I wonder if they could go the next step and actually encode what is inside the envelope into an electronic message rather than taking a picture of your paper mail. That would save a lot of work and money.
I know!!...we could call it “E-Mail,” short for “Electronic Mail.”
What’ll these government geniuses think of next?
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