On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 5:05:46 PM PDT, juan wrote: as a side note of sorts [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photog raphing-all-us-mail.html × (BUTTON) "But Mr. Donahoe said that the images had been used “a couple of times” by law enforcement to trace letters in criminal cases, including one involving ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. The images of letters and packages are generally stored for a week to 30 days and then destroyed, he told the A.P." [end of quote from article] About that article. I think it's curious that they claim to "destroy' the images after "a week to 30 days". If there are about 1 billion mailed items each year, and it takes 50 kilobytes to store an image (wild ass guess, and assuming some compression), that would amount to 50 terabytes of data: A bit more than 4 of the largest-capacity of hard drives currently sold. [2]https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-gold-enterprise-cl ass-hard-drive.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhqXbBRAREiwAucoo-yp9zBDxr1hrojtP7nXAw 8Trmtx4-9N8m5DAecI3hqQeTEyGeHWYjBoCg_IQAvD_BwE Think about it. If YOU had access to this data, would YOU erase it, if the storage only cost about $2000 per year? Jim Bell References 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html 2. https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-gold-enterprise-class-hard-drive.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwhqXbBRAREiwAucoo-yp9zBDxr1hrojtP7nXAw8Trmtx4-9N8m5DAecI3hqQeTEyGeHWYjBoCg_IQAvD_BwE