Wondering how the privacy is taken into equation while scans are done of the mail.
Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
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#12That is where all this talk about "what will the Post Office do in the age of ..." goes - they will help me manage all this stuff and rubbish. I will trust the post office to open and scan my mail, far more than I will JRandomStartup. And then they can handle a one stop bill payment service for me, and as I trust them, they can generate a CA and I will put it in my phone and suddenly they own the customer experience…
> I will trust the post office to open and scan my mail, far more than I will JRandomStartup
Interesting, my feeling is the opposite - I've lost count of the number of envelopes I've received that have been partially opened up to check if there are credit cards etc inside. I seem to remember seeing that one postal worker a day is caught stealing mail in the UK.
I would absolutely not trust the UK Post Office to open my mail.
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#13In the english version the "Number of letters monthly
(incl. envelope scan)" is missing:
Single Easy: 0 Liberty Plus: 100 Professional: 400
Would love to use it, but a little bit too expensive.
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#15I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
It isn't needed, at least for the metadata part. see "Mail Covers": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
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#16I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
Is there any reason the NSA can't open snail mail?
There are a number of US laws that protect mail / post explicitly, and don't explicitly protect email. See this article on the matter:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/06...
One of the laws in question:
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#17I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
Is there any reason the NSA can't open snail mail?
They probably don't have to for most mail. I posted this yesterday in the Jimmy Carter's mail discussion thread. tl;dr It isn't difficult (at least in principle) to read mail through the envelope. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456157
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#18I use virtualpostmail.com for the same purpose; it's a bit easier if you're US-based.
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#19For what it's worth, for anyone interested, I used this service for years, and they're great. Really nice if you're nomadic and want to have a steady mailing address. In the U.S., https://www.earthclassmail.com/ provides the same service. I think it is (or was) Earth Class Mail's backend software that is/was powering Swiss Post Box, when I was using it. Also great for having a U.S. mailing address for your business,…
I use a similar service for here in the UK.
So far no problems.
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#20NSA's wet dream.