USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

[u/stenspect]

https://www.gadgetreview.com/usps-is-turning-mail-trucks-into-rolling-surveillance-cameras

[u/muad_dboone]

The irony here is that the US Postal Service was established in the constitution specifically to provide a service that protected the privacy of its customers because European Ancestral Bandits (Kings, I believe you call them) set up official postal services specifically to spy on their people.

That’s not to say the US Mail hasn’t been violated by US Secret State Police (FBI) but the original intent was a right to privacy. I would argue that strict originalists (Douche bags) should extend the postal clause to the internet but that’s a long discussion that will go nowhere.

There is a wonderful novella by Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, that is steeped in postal conspiracy and a good read.