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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: Chickensoup

Hey, no need to get chippy here you two. Look, they are recording every phone conversation and email. Taking the picture of the outside of our mail seems almost benign. I mean, your mail carrier sees that every day. Now if they can somehow read the contents....


41 posted on 11/16/2017 6:18:10 PM PST by fhayek
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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 haven’t seen that yet. I was talking to a young man recently who said his Mom delivers for FedEx. He said that if the company gets a report of only three packages missing after delivery, the driver is fired because the company suspects the driver is doing the stealing.

Of course, the driver could take a photo of the package on your porch and then take the package back to the truck.


42 posted on 11/16/2017 6:20:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Chickensoup

Any different than the government keeping track of every email?


43 posted on 11/16/2017 6:20:57 PM PST by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Something is wrong with this message.


44 posted on 11/16/2017 6:22:31 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Chickensoup

How about if they just take a picture of my junk-mail, and then throw it away.


45 posted on 11/16/2017 6:22:48 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Chickensoup

Do they provide pictures of putting it in your mailbox?


46 posted on 11/16/2017 6:27:55 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Chickensoup

I do this so I know what to expect. They send me an email each day with a photo copy of the front of the envelope. If you don’t get it, you can check the box and let them know online.


47 posted on 11/16/2017 6:28:53 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Chickensoup

Do they open it and photo it too?


48 posted on 11/16/2017 6:30:45 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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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.

Have you heard about Amazon Key?

With Amazon Key, they can leave the package inside your front door. But it has a bug.

49 posted on 11/16/2017 6:31:35 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Chickensoup

I think you have to opt-in for that. If you get your mail at a PO Box it could save you quite a few unnecessary trips to the PO if you’re willing to give up some privacy.


50 posted on 11/16/2017 6:34:24 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Chickensoup

And now they want access to the inside of your home so they can drop packages off and they’ll be safe. What could possibly go wrong?


51 posted on 11/16/2017 6:34:40 PM PST by FrdmLvr (“What Happened you ask?...Ma’am, you got your ass kicked.” Bannon)
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To: House Atreides

We tried to mail something on a military base, and the postal worker there refused to process it until a return address was on it. Said he couldn’t process it without that.


52 posted on 11/16/2017 6:34:49 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Chickensoup

And for $52.95/month they’ll also email you copies of their photos of the contents of your mail.


53 posted on 11/16/2017 6:39:41 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Chickensoup
and they STILL lose my mail, and i have a PO BOX!!!
54 posted on 11/16/2017 6:40:05 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Chickensoup

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


Are you a libertarian yet?


55 posted on 11/16/2017 6:43:20 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Years ago, we traded ‘privacy’ for ‘anonymity’. We are merely ‘part of the herd’.

Chances are, if you go out of your home, at least part of your travels are on video somewhere.


56 posted on 11/16/2017 6:50:14 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Chickensoup

This is something they have been doing for ages.

Guess what...you have no privacy. In fact your mail isn’t yours until you take it out of the box.


57 posted on 11/16/2017 6:51:12 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Chickensoup

This is awesome! Now I can take the image of my missing mail around to my neighbors and see whose yard it landed in.


58 posted on 11/16/2017 6:52:57 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Chickensoup

If you are still corresponding to someone by writing a letter, you must be a terrorist.

Seriously, a book of stamps bought in January will last me until summer. I am pretty average.


59 posted on 11/16/2017 6:53:59 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Chickensoup
USPS has been taking videos of your mail since at least 2002.

Back then, they used it to scan the zip code, but now, all the deliverable addresses in America are cataloged, too, so it probably scans the address as well.

In 2002, items that did not have a readable zip code passed into a second line, and a dedicated video feed was sent to various USPS centers that employed hundreds of people who attempted to read the zip and address. If they could figure out the address, they keyed in the correct zip, which printed on the item.

The little stick on bar codes you mentioned are used to route an item to the correct courier. Today, those stick on codes also sort the mail into stacks that exactly match the courier's route.

60 posted on 11/16/2017 6:55:01 PM PST by zeestephen
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