Post Office Storing Copies Of Everyone’s Mail In National Database For Law Enforcement

The United States Postal Service has been compiling a database of every Americans’ mail records into a dragnet being made available to law enforcement agencies on command.

Information buried in the United States Postal Service’s annual audit, gleaned by SFGate, reveal that the USPS’ ‘mail covers‘ surveillance program has grown exponentially over the past two years

Under the program, a copy is made of every piece of mail sent through every post office. The images are then stored in a database to be at the disposal of law enforcement who might need them at a later date.

Though postal officials are not allowed to open mail and investigate its contents without a warrant, the data being collected allows law enforcement and other government officials to monitor to whom and where every individual is sending mail.

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