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Wondering how the privacy is taken into equation while scans are done of the mail.

syjer 13y ago
It's answered in the FAQ: http://www.post.ch/en/post-startseite/post-privatkunden/post-empfangen/post-empfangen-empfangsvarianten/post-swisspostbox/post-swisspost-box-faq.htm#txt128872 http://www.post.ch/en/post-startseite/post-privatkunden/post... . Postal secrecy is taken seriously in switzerland.
- Argorak 13y ago
  It doesn't cover that this potentially breaks the Secrecy of Correspondence, which is a fundamental law in some countries, including Switzerland. IANAL, and certainly not a Swiss one, but in Germany, there is a similar project (EPostBrief), which suffers from that problem: once the letter is unwrapped, the law doesn't bite anymore, as it doesn't apply to digital transmissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence It doesn't matter how much your provider insists that they keep things secure.
darklajid 13y ago
I have some connection to that company and would definitely agree with the sibling post that privacy is a huge concern for them. Another interesting thought is this: All your snail mail metadata is (obviously, but have you recently thought about it?) already available in digital form: No one's reading the addresses by hand on your letters or parcels (unless absolutely necessary, i.e. OCR fails). So they (post services in general) already constantly have to handle the (digital) information of person A sending something to person B, at roughly time X. Feels like smtp.
preek 13y ago
The scanning center is based in one of the three post relay centers that Switzerland has. To get into one of these, you need a batch. Then, inside this building (which is huge, like three soccer arenas), there is a glass building that has yet another batch only access with revolving doors that only has space for one person. So getting the mail out of there (aka stealing) will be hard. As for the concern that some person other than yourself will read your mail, that is true. As a customer, you will sign a voucher that you are ok with specific Swiss Post employees being able to read your mail.

syjer 13y ago

It's answered in the FAQ: http://www.post.ch/en/post-startseite/post-privatkunden/post-empfangen/post-empfangen-empfangsvarianten/post-swisspostbox/post-swisspost-box-faq.htm#txt128872 http://www.post.ch/en/post-startseite/post-privatkunden/post... . Postal secrecy is taken seriously in switzerland.

Argorak 13y ago
It doesn't cover that this potentially breaks the Secrecy of Correspondence, which is a fundamental law in some countries, including Switzerland. IANAL, and certainly not a Swiss one, but in Germany, there is a similar project (EPostBrief), which suffers from that problem: once the letter is unwrapped, the law doesn't bite anymore, as it doesn't apply to digital transmissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence It doesn't matter how much your provider insists that they keep things secure.

darklajid 13y ago

I have some connection to that company and would definitely agree with the sibling post that privacy is a huge concern for them. Another interesting thought is this: All your snail mail metadata is (obviously, but have you recently thought about it?) already available in digital form: No one's reading the addresses by hand on your letters or parcels (unless absolutely necessary, i.e. OCR fails). So they (post services in general) already constantly have to handle the (digital) information of person A sending something to person B, at roughly time X. Feels like smtp.

preek 13y ago

The scanning center is based in one of the three post relay centers that Switzerland has. To get into one of these, you need a batch. Then, inside this building (which is huge, like three soccer arenas), there is a glass building that has yet another batch only access with revolving doors that only has space for one person. So getting the mail out of there (aka stealing) will be hard. As for the concern that some person other than yourself will read your mail, that is true. As a customer, you will sign a voucher that you are ok with specific Swiss Post employees being able to read your mail.