In article , "Kris
Baker" wrote:


One shipper noted that his PO was requiring all Media
Mail packages to be presented unsealed, so that the
contents could be inspected prior to shipment. Some
buyers are reporting that they're receiving packages
that have been obviously opened, inspected and
resealed.

Kris

Some while ago (during the Unibomber's antics) every book package I
shipped got delayed -- sometimes by factors of a couple of months -- & in
trying to track what happened it turned out packages were being warehoused
near San Francisco in order to be opened & inspected, but without funding
for enough inspectors. One customer who waited long for a huge package of
many books wrote me afterward that it was clear that one end of every
separately wrapped book had been opened & clumsily retaped. Presumedly
they're no so slow & sloppy about inspections since the anthrax mailings &
actually have funds for it, but anyone expecting privacy in their mail is
deluding themselves, & emails & these newsgroups are also being monitored
-- one doesn't need to be a paranoid anymore to understand Big Brother
really is watching. And everyone says they feel SO safe until they're
dragged off to jail & denied access to attorneys for the high crime of
checking the wrong book out of the library.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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