On Tracking the Mails

The following are comments made on Cardiff Giant.

A recent report by a Presidential commission recommended that the US Postal Service work with the Department of Homeland security to develop sender identification and mail tracking systems for all US mail in an effort to fight terrorism via the post.

This is a frightening thing as far as I am concerned because of the dramatic invasion of privacy and potential tracking capabilities it implies. Now of course the entire point of the recommendation was the make tracking mail sent by terrorist easier, but a program of mandatory sender identification would put the entire nation under yet another microscope that is ripe for misuse by government.