Take heed ladies and gentlemen. Just this past week I made a special request for a document from a county office out in the sticks of northern California. Used tracking on the envelope I sent.
Envelope went from my post office to sort facility...then vanished. I've been harassing the post office about it. The envelope only needed to go to a 2nd post office then to the county office. Never made it past sort. Post office responses have been laced with incompetence and nervousness. One guy told me he gets a lot of these calls. His job is to refer you to dead end customer service numbers. One is out of service and the other is a VM that so far has gone unanswered.
So...Lost? Really with an address and tracking label affixed?
Dumped in the garbage cause mail worker too lazy to deliver?
County worker wants to cheat his boss out of $17 bucks for a doc copy?
Or is some FED masturbating to my exciting doc request?
I mean really, what the fuck?
The Government Is Snooping Through Your Snail Mail
In addition to the email and phone metadata the U.S. government is tracking, the feds also have an eye on your regular old snail mail, which is actually a "treasure trove of information," according to a former FBI agent who used to work with the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, as it's called. One would think that snail mail, a relic from a former century, wouldn't provide that much insight into our lives ? isn't it all bills and unwamted brochures by now? But, it's just about as useful, it not more so, than digital collection. "Looking at just the outside of letters and other mail, I can see who you bank with, who you communicate with ? all kinds of useful information that gives investigators leads that they can then follow up on with a subpoena," James J. Wedick, the FBI agent, told The New York Times's Ron Nixon.
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