Surveillance by the US Postal Service
This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves:
To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the targeted blue post boxes which captured the suspect’s full face as they allegedly helped themselves to swathes of peoples’ mail.
Clive Robinson • December 13, 2023 8:06 AM
@ Bruce, ALL,
The USPS “Arrow Key” security is appaling and nobody knows how many there are out there, becaise the control system is a failure,
https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2023/02/12/usps-arrow-key-management-controls-ineffective/
https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/audit-reports/arrow-key-management-controls
Worse there are photos of the Arrow Keys that can be found on the Internet, so making your own is just a “basic skill” issue.
We’ve seen all of this sort of nonsense before with TSA Keys and theft from luggage.
Apparently the USPS is going to move from mechanical keys to “electronic locks”.
Personally I suspect that the electronic locks will be very low price, and thus probably not realy any better than the security of the current mechanical locks.