The U.S. Postal Service didn’t adequately follow its own rules last year, when it secretly recorded and shared information about some 49,000 pieces of mail to further criminal and national security investigations, according to an audit report from the USPS Office of Inspector General. Information recorded under the service’s longstanding mail cover program is limited to what’s written on the exterior of the packages and letters, such as names, addresses and postmark dates, and it’s collected at the request of law authorities.
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Snail Mail Surveillance: Rules Are Weak - and Routinely Broken
Posted by: Katherine Noyes October 30, 2014 02:51 PMThe U.S. Postal Service didn’t adequately follow its own rules last year, when it secretly recorded and shared information about some 49,000 pieces of mail to further criminal and national security investigations, according to an audit report from the USPS Office of Inspector General. Information recorded under the service’s longstanding mail cover program is limited to what’s written on the exterior of the packages and letters, such as names, addresses and postmark dates, and it’s collected at the request of law authorities.