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> The US Postal service does not open every single letter to check if it contains illegal material. You'd be surprised about the amount of packages that gets
by donkeyd 5y ago
> The US Postal service does not open every single letter to check if it contains illegal material.
You'd be surprised about the amount of packages that gets x-rayed in order to find drugs. But yes, you're 100% right that it's not all of them.
- silverpepsi 5y agoAn x-ray is nothing like reading the contents of letters or randomly checking ahipped harddrives and USB sticks for content. I don't know how to clarify legally or conceptually, but I feel confident there is a very clear difference
- emodendroket 5y agoPerhaps I'm being too cynical but I think the difference is they haven't figured out a convenient, automated way to do the latter
- aidenn0 5y agoI forgot about that. I think it's nearly all stamped mail over a certain weight? I don't remember if labeled mail is similarly scanned and my google skills are failing me today.
- JohnFen 5y agoIt is illegal for the USPS to look at the contents of first class mail except with a court order. Other classes of mail may have less stringent protections. For instance, third class (and maybe second class, I forget) mail can be opened to make sure that the things it contains are allowed to be mailed in that class.