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U.S. Postal Service To Develop 'Intelligent Mail'
securitas writes "The President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service's final report (PDF) has recommended that the USPS and the Department of Homeland Security develop sender identification technology for all U.S. mail. The commission said Intelligent Mail could bolster security and let consumers track the progress of all mail they send, which has been a top consumer demand in surveys. The report released July 31 reads, "Each piece of Intelligent Mail will carry a
unique, machine-readable barcode (or other indicia) that will
identify, at a minimum, the sender, the destination, and the class
of mail... Intelligent Mail will allow the
real-time tracking of individual mail pieces." Privacy advocates like the EFF and Center for Democracy & Technology are understandably concerned. The Final Recommendations are available in PDF format. More at Direct Marketers News and pro-privacy/civil liberties magazine Counterpunch."
Jamie adds: This confuses me, because I read a news story in late 2001 which matter-of-factly explained that authorities would be contacting recipients of letters which went through a particular post office around the same time as an anthrax envelope. The implication, which I haven't seen any discussion of then or since, is that records are kept of every letter's travels through every post office. Anyone know anything about that?
Update:
mec does.
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Personally, I don't see the problem here. UPS, FedEx, etc. have been doing this for years. And honestly, the Postal Service needs to come up with something to stay alive... they're already talking about possibly eliminating Saturday delivery services due to low funds. If this helps funds keep rolling into the Postal Service, and makes people happy as it *is* one of the most requested services by consumers, the tax payers.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
In Soviet Russia, the mail mails you!
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This seems like a great way to put the USPS out of business.
They aren't a business, they're a government service. If they were a business they'd have been bankrupt decades ago.
This is just cancelling stamps with a genned up barcode. Just embedding some more info into the postmarks. They can already trace it back to the post office.
Theres no standing in line or showing ID or any of that shit. That's slashbot FUD.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
don't fret about the post hole service. they'll be shipping all form of parcels for all time to come. they should be working on an intelligent method to stop delivering megatons of worthless annoying junkmail, as the public will seek alternatives to their many facaded approch to 'serving' the public (their charter, by the way).
back on task. the Godless murderous thieving georgewellian fuddites appear to be continuing to destroy the planet unimpeded. you know that's not going to work out well.
y'all might want to consider helping to disempower this greed/fear based execrable. you know what to do/where to look. see you there.
each murdered infant carries a badtoll, which cannot be repaid by the whoreabull walking dead, which leaves it (repairation) up to you/us.
pay attention. that's quite affordable, & can be rewarding as well.
...I remove the return address and the destination address on everything I mail.
It should be contracted out to the most competitive (price/services) bidder.