Confirmed: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-obama-bloomberg-ricin-letters-687435
Back when we had the anthrax scare (which just oddly seemed to be using anthrax from our own government weapons lab), one of the casualties was a 94 year old woman in Oxford Connecticut, the next town over from where I lived. At the time I had written (and have mentioned it a couple times since) one of the odd things about that case that was mentioned in the local media before they clammed up.
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/FBI-formally-closes-protracted-anthrax-case-372840.php
Very quickly after it happened, it was announced publicly that she had been exposed to the anthrax not because she was a target, but because one of the anthrax letters had passed through a sorting machine just a few ahead of the one addressed to hers. That was an amazing disclosure at the time – because for them to know that, every letter passing through the sorting machine must be being logged – either with some kind of invisible tracking ID or the outside of the letters being photogrpahed in the same way that checks are photographed and microfilmed going through a check sorting machine.
It’s always been the case that postal mail going internationally is routinely opened and read, including our government. While a “safety” envelope hides an amateur attempt to read mail by holding it up to a light, I think it would be naive to think there aren’t techniques to read the contents of an envelope without opening it at all.
I sure hope that every package that is delivered by UPS, Fedex and other non-government delivery companies also provide details of every page they ship!
I don’t know about you, but I feel much safer now. You can never be too safe, I say!
When you finish with your diatribe (conspiracy nut !) could you pass the Doritos and dip. TV Land is having a Nanny and the Professor marathon after the game – so get it out of your system now. Jeeze.
I was just on the usps.gov and was looking for a link to find the vacation post cards that my grandma sent me when I was a kid, but I could not find a search box for it. What is our tax money being spent for?!? First of all the post office doesn’t even own usps.gov.
Don’t worry guys, since the sequester it’s a pretty good bet the funds to read/open or photograph the mail has been shut down. I figure at some point in the not too distant future, mail volume will be reduced to nothing more than mass advert mailings and a few birthday/Christmas cards.