Mycroft

Interesting find.

I would be keen for capitalist motives to set up an alternate service which guarantees:

* safe on-time delivery
* absolute anonymity

in exchange for

* no posting of anything unsafe or illegal.

Put the Postal Service out of business. There are plenty of private postal services setting up in most other countries, but not in the Stalinist USA.


Postal ID plan creates privacy fears

By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 12, 2003, 8:09 AM PT

A government report that urges the U.S. Postal Service to create "smart stamps" to track the identity of people who send mail is eliciting concern from privacy advocates.
The report, released last month by the President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service, issued numerous recommendations aimed at reforming the debt-laden agency. One recommendation is that the USPS "aggressively pursue" the development of a so-called intelligent mail system.

Though details remain sketchy, an intelligent mail system would involve using barcodes or special stamps, identifying, at a minimum, the sender, the destination and the class of mail. USPS already offers mail-tracking services to corporate customers. The report proposes a broad expansion of the concept to all mail for national security purposes. It also suggests USPS work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop the system.

that system is already in use in australia, if you send a parcel or letter over a certain weight or size, then you have to produce photo id and tell them what's in the package, it's all part of our new (NWO) terrorist laws....

wow thats kind scary. Looks like Big Brother has got his eye on you guys in the states. Not long before the UK does the same *sighs*

octopus

Now extend the ID requirement to any time you buy a postage stamp ('smart stamp'), no matter what the size or contents or destination of your letter, and Voila!

There is your Big Brother US Post.

That model will never be picked up by Australia Post in a thousand years.

its pretty scary how far they are going to monitor people. whats next, tracking device in your car??

Well, the NWO has been out there tracking us. Hell, who do you think pays for all the video cameras set up in the world? Do you know how expensive it is to run those things 24/7? Say 7/11 has 500 stores, each one with one camera. Is 7/11 ready to pay over 200$ a day to run them? The guy to watch the moniter, the moniter, the electrical equipment, the electricity, the seat for the guy to sit in, so forth, Hell, probably more than 200$ a day.

But NWO? They have unlimited money. The NWO can pay and pay and pay with the money they collect from the people all over the world through taxes, "charity" groups, so forth. Of course, also could be using alien technology, alien energy sources, so forth. The NWO can do just about anything.

Damn, thats scary! Dont surprise me though. I hope people dont seriously fall for this line of crap. I mean, has anyone ever realized that people mail people annonymously for non terrorist reasons, and its no ones friggin biz who does what?

By the way, tracking devices are already in cars. Lo Jack is one, GPS is another. so nothing that moves, whether mail or people, will do so annoymously anymore. The Lo jack arguement is so it is used to track stolen cars. Sorry, Lo jack aint that great, cuz a cop told me after my own car got stolen that it can be tampered with, and that one lo jacked car that had been stolen was located.after it was on a barge to hong kong

I have a document about how to live free by putting space basically between you and the system itself. One of the rules for this is:
"Arrange to have your mail sent to a 24-hour Post Office box, to a mail drop, or a mail forwarding service. This way the only mail to be left at your residence will be "Occupant" variety. Make it a rule NEVER to sign for certified or registered mail. Tell the carrier that you are not the person named on the receipt, or that so-and-so moved months ago.
Where? Austria..... or was it Australia?"

It never hurts to have the freedom of not being personally connected to the system, but it does take some extra effort on your part to do so.

Originally posted by James the Lesser
Well, the NWO has been out there tracking us. Hell, who do you think pays for all the video cameras set up in the world? Do you know how expensive it is to run those things 24/7? Say 7/11 has 500 stores, each one with one camera. Is 7/11 ready to pay over 200$ a day to run them? The guy to watch the moniter, the moniter, the electrical equipment, the electricity, the seat for the guy to sit in, so forth, Hell, probably more than 200$ a day.

Nobody watches the monitor. Most of the time there is no monitor, it goes straight to video. People only watch them if something unusual happened.

its pretty scary how far they are going to monitor people. whats next, tracking device in your car??

Actually yes, the U.S. Congress is looking at a bill that will require all new cars (after a certain date) to come standard with a North Star Navigation System.

Then Again there probably wont be anything to stop you from ripping it out if you want to.

Actually I think its On Star Navigation System instead of North Star.