YES, Big Brother is really watching you!

The USPS records/saves photos of every piece of first class mail, domestic and international and ALL packages.

In the mid 2000's the USPS started using photography and image scans to more quickly process and sort first class mail and packages.

By 2012 the existing technology was assisting law enforcement by making these images available to various agencies to combat crime and be useful in terrorist investigations.

In 2013 the cat was out of the bag with a brief flurry of reports and articles about how such monitoring was helping combat crime. After the initial reporting virtually nothing appeared in the press and most citizens are not even aware of the law enforcement aspect of the program. Information here should provide you the basic details of this postal/national security issue.

Like the benefits of the space program where there were ‘civilian’ uses for some of the developed technology, the initial use for postal purposes, the later expansion for law enforcement, there is now the Informed Delivery program making the image retention available for use of postal customers.

The Informed Delivery program now provides information which will:

Tell me when to expect my package for delivery.
Tell me when there's an alert.
Tell me when to expect my package for delivery that day.
Tell me when I have mail or packages to pick up.
Tell me about any delivery / final handoff activity.

See details at: https://informeddelivery.blogs...