USPS metadata
2013-07-03 18:14:02.651081+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Confirming what we know from other sources: NY Times: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement.
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, but that is only a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.