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Then there is an accomplice. Two people are easier to find than one.

jarek 14y ago
Mail something to a friend in New York, ask them to remail via a super-busy mail box and destroy the original envelope. Sure it'll technically be possible to review CCTV around the mail box, but then the investigators have to find out who asked the remailer to do this. More difficult than just cross-checking IP addresses to find potential matches for one person. Daisy-chain the remails a couple of times and it gets ridiculously complicated for all but highest security purposes. Get the accomplices to each wait some semi-random amount of days before remailing to help improve chances that one of the CCTVs will roll-over and write over footage of a remailer... Or mail it yourself while travelling without connecting to the server while in the area. Sure, you can technically cross-check CCTV from mailbox with transport centres footage with transport records, but... Do U.S. stamps have identifying features like printers these days? Shown a stamp or three stamps, can you tell e.g. which store chain sold them?
- dioltas 14y ago
  I think you just send the SDF a dollar bill, that's it. You could just call a friend at the other side of the country and ask them to send it.
- chris_mahan 14y ago
  Make sure your friend isn't FBI, or FBI, Police, or other informant. Make sure your friend isn't going to rat you out. Make sure your friend isn't going to just take the money and tell you he mailed it. Make sure your friend doesn't get caught. Make sure your friend can resist NYPD torture (cough, I mean Enhanced Interrogation) because how do they know it's not ricin in the envelope, so they can't take any chances. Make sure your friend understands that if you're doing something shady, something that could be considered Postal Fraud, that he could then be prosecuted as an accomplice. Make sure he understands that he could spend years in jail for blindly remailing something of yours. For someone willing to take those risks based on your friendship, that would be some really close friend! (or an FBI informant). I think it's safer to just not mail the letter if you really want to be anonymous. Think of your friend's safety!
bcoates 14y ago
The postal service will cheerfully act as that accomplice: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/valentine-post-office-names.htm http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/valentine-po...
- bhickey 14y ago
  I'm going to bounce a letter off of Bridal Veil, OR and Lovejoy, GA. I'll follow up if/when it gets back to me. Edit: Here we go: http://i.imgur.com/ZAXzlT8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZAXzlT8.jpg
- btilly 14y ago
  My mother took advantage of that when my brother was in the hospital for several months. When the morning mail came around on Valentine's day, he had a ton of mail from women he'd never heard from from half the towns in the USA with any kind of romantic name. When the afternoon mail came around, he got the same from the half that didn't arrive in the morning. For the rest of his stay, he had an unassailable reputation as a super stud. Not a particularly bad thing for a marine in a military hospital!

jarek 14y ago

Mail something to a friend in New York, ask them to remail via a super-busy mail box and destroy the original envelope. Sure it'll technically be possible to review CCTV around the mail box, but then the investigators have to find out who asked the remailer to do this. More difficult than just cross-checking IP addresses to find potential matches for one person. Daisy-chain the remails a couple of times and it gets ridiculously complicated for all but highest security purposes. Get the accomplices to each wait some semi-random amount of days before remailing to help improve chances that one of the CCTVs will roll-over and write over footage of a remailer... Or mail it yourself while travelling without connecting to the server while in the area. Sure, you can technically cross-check CCTV from mailbox with transport centres footage with transport records, but... Do U.S. stamps have identifying features like printers these days? Shown a stamp or three stamps, can you tell e.g. which store chain sold them?

dioltas 14y ago
I think you just send the SDF a dollar bill, that's it. You could just call a friend at the other side of the country and ask them to send it.
chris_mahan 14y ago
Make sure your friend isn't FBI, or FBI, Police, or other informant. Make sure your friend isn't going to rat you out. Make sure your friend isn't going to just take the money and tell you he mailed it. Make sure your friend doesn't get caught. Make sure your friend can resist NYPD torture (cough, I mean Enhanced Interrogation) because how do they know it's not ricin in the envelope, so they can't take any chances. Make sure your friend understands that if you're doing something shady, something that could be considered Postal Fraud, that he could then be prosecuted as an accomplice. Make sure he understands that he could spend years in jail for blindly remailing something of yours. For someone willing to take those risks based on your friendship, that would be some really close friend! (or an FBI informant). I think it's safer to just not mail the letter if you really want to be anonymous. Think of your friend's safety!

bcoates 14y ago

The postal service will cheerfully act as that accomplice: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/valentine-post-office-names.htm http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/valentine-po...

bhickey 14y ago
I'm going to bounce a letter off of Bridal Veil, OR and Lovejoy, GA. I'll follow up if/when it gets back to me. Edit: Here we go: http://i.imgur.com/ZAXzlT8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZAXzlT8.jpg
btilly 14y ago
My mother took advantage of that when my brother was in the hospital for several months. When the morning mail came around on Valentine's day, he had a ton of mail from women he'd never heard from from half the towns in the USA with any kind of romantic name. When the afternoon mail came around, he got the same from the half that didn't arrive in the morning. For the rest of his stay, he had an unassailable reputation as a super stud. Not a particularly bad thing for a marine in a military hospital!