The backstory to tracing the mail bombs: How USPS keeps ‘metadata’ on all your mail

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By now, it’s not news that the National Security Agency was gathering information about U.S. citizens without warrants, judicial review, or even the knowledge of those whose information found its way into government databases. The NSA didn’t need to listen into calls to spy on you any more than the Postal Service needs to open you letters to track your activity.

The difference? The Postal Service has been doing it for much, much longer and rarely faced scrutiny.

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