palani
14th August 2015, 04:06 AM
USPS Special Covers Program. Not associated with stamp collecting. When the postal service cares enough to deliver your mail and make reports to practically any government agency that requests surveillance. The 2nd link is to a letter in response to a FOIA request that pretty much nails down who can ask for information and how many of these requests they make.
In what experts say is the first acknowledgment of how the United States Postal Service’s mail surveillance program for national security investigations is used, the service’s internal watchdog found that inspectors failed to follow key safeguards in the gathering and handling of classified information.
The overall program, called mail covers, allows postal employees working on behalf of law enforcement agencies to record names, return addresses and other information from the outside of letters and packages before they are delivered to the home of a person suspected of criminal activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/us/copy-of-postal-service-audit-shows-extent-of-mail-surveillance.html?_r=0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmetJxi-p0VOExOZGo2V1ktWHM/view?pli=1
In what experts say is the first acknowledgment of how the United States Postal Service’s mail surveillance program for national security investigations is used, the service’s internal watchdog found that inspectors failed to follow key safeguards in the gathering and handling of classified information.
The overall program, called mail covers, allows postal employees working on behalf of law enforcement agencies to record names, return addresses and other information from the outside of letters and packages before they are delivered to the home of a person suspected of criminal activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/us/copy-of-postal-service-audit-shows-extent-of-mail-surveillance.html?_r=0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmetJxi-p0VOExOZGo2V1ktWHM/view?pli=1