TweetOK..THE TILE OF THIS THREAD IS A LITTLE MISLEADING.....ITS NOT EVERY PIECE OF MAIL...JUST EVERY PIECE OF MAIL THAT GOES TO THE PRES,OR HIGH UP GOV FIGURES...AND OF COURSE THEY DO..WHY WOULDNT THEY
Tweetconsidering the postal system is broke they sure got some really cool expensive technology...
Feds: Postal Service photographs every piece of mail it processes
JUNE 7--A high-tech computer system that captures images of “every mail piece that is processed” by the United State Postal Service was critical in helping federal agents track the Texas woman arrested today for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In a U.S. District Court complaint filed today against Shannon Guess Richardson, an FBI agent details how investigators traced the ricin letters back to New Boston, Texas, where the 35-year-old Richardson (seen below) lives with her husband.
The Bloomberg letter was opened at a municipal mail center in Manhattan on May 24, while the letter to Obama was intercepted May 30 at an off-site White House mail facility. A third ricin letter--sent to an anti-gun group funded by Bloomberg--was received at a Washington, D.C. office on May 26.
According to FBI Agent James Spiropoulos, investigators accessed a Postal Service computer system that “incorporates a Mail Isolation Control and Tracking (MICT) program which photographs and captures an image of every mail piece that is processed.” Agents were able to obtain front and back images of about 20 mail pieces that had been processed “immediately before the mail piece addressed to Mayor Bloomberg.”
A review of that mail revealed that each piece carried return addresses listing zip codes in the New Boston area.
A similar analysis of 40 mail pieces that were processed “immediately before and after the mail piece addressed to President Obama” showed that several of those letters listed addresses in two Texas cities near New Boston.
According to the felony complaint against Richardson, she confessed yesterday to “mailing the three letters--knowing that they contained ricin.” She repeated earlier claims that her husband Nathaniel, who has not been charged, was involved with the Obama and Bloomberg mailings. Richardson alleged that her spouse “typed the letters and made her print and mail them,” reported Agent Spiropoulos.
TweetOK..THE TILE OF THIS THREAD IS A LITTLE MISLEADING.....ITS NOT EVERY PIECE OF MAIL...JUST EVERY PIECE OF MAIL THAT GOES TO THE PRES,OR HIGH UP GOV FIGURES...AND OF COURSE THEY DO..WHY WOULDNT THEY
Tweetx2^ i was a little freaked out. if they scanned and stored pics of every peice of mail the USPS would be out of business lol and shipping times would probably tripple
I never meant to be better than anyone, I was just born that way. Its hard being a god amongst peasants!
TweetYea,it would be impossible to do this to every piece of mail coming and going to all its citizens.
Tweetjust the fact they have it and are using it regularly scares me because as fast as technology is today it will be closer to home faster than we may think.
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if you wear a tinfoil hat...they cant read your thoughts
Tweetnothing wrong with tin foil hats..