And if you subscribe to High Times, best to opt for the Kindle edition.
Print edition only $29.99/yr at Amazon.
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
buzz killer
Just when the paranoia starts getting good you have to go and cool it off with facts and stuff.
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.
I get an email every morning with photos of all my letter-sized mail, even the junk mail. No photos of packages.
And if you subscribe to High Times, best to opt for the Kindle edition.
Print edition only $29.99/yr at Amazon.
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.
Sorry, I was just reflexivly responding to your post to Az Joe which seemed to be contra your original point which I agree with.
I like it too.
You are right about the photos only showing the outside of the envelope.
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.
I have a boring life. It’s like getting mail twice a day! Wheeeeeee!!
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.”
Then they should know to keep the junk mail out of my mailbox.
I rarely put my return address.
molon labe
“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.
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!”
And yet they couldn't track Ted Kazinsky's packages.
Ask for a plain brown wrapper.
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.
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.
> 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.
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