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FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology
coondoggie writes to tell us that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be taking a look at contactless payment systems and the consumer protection issue surrounding them. "RFID technology provides obvious benefits, the FTC said. For example, the ability of producers using RFID to track exactly where in the supply chain their products are and by which retailer they were ultimately sold to a consumer has the potential to make product recalls more effective. However, there also may be costs regarding consumers' individual privacy rights associated with it."
IAACPRC (contract postal retail clerk)
Express Mail gets lost. Trust me, I've had it happen once or twice in my two years' work at a contract postal unit (meaning I work for a business which runs a USPS-funded post office) because EMS is just like any other of the "usual" services - Delivery/Signature Confirmation, Certified Mail, Insured Mail. These barcoded services are traceable, but only at certain points, and in some cases (e.g. DC and Certified) USPS only guarantees you'll get a delivery scan; intermediate scans are basically a "courtesy" to the customer. The only advantage of EMS is it includes $100 of insurance and it's scanned in at every stopping point.
If you really don't want something to get lost, send it Registered Mail. Registered stuff doesn't get lost; it's someone's job, because they can literally narrow it down to one employee who last had the item in their possession. Every employee who takes a registered item into possession has to sign for it, so there's a traceable system of receipts linking an item to an employee from acceptance to delivery.