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every piece of mail in the United States is tracked. Every package, every envelope.

• uptown 12y ago
  And photographed. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms...
  • SCAQTony 12y ago
    We be living in the Soviet Union now. I tweeted this link and mentioned "uptown" and @HackerNews. thank you for this link, upvote.
  • rhino369 12y ago
    Of course, they have to detect your address with a computer.
• ams6110 12y ago
  But you can still drop a letter into a public mailbox, with no return address. Then only the recipient is tracked.
  • pessimizer 12y ago
    This will be a distant memory once the USPS declares that it's only going to accept eStamps from registered accounts. There will be a cross-platform app, though, so this change will be proclaimed by all media outlets to clearly be superior to all legacy solutions, and a sign of agile, efficient government.