Your snail mail’s “metadata” is inspected and saved. Your snail mail can be intercepted. The snail mail system is a public good if ever there was one, and managing it is done with the whole in mind.
If the s-mail system were used to deliver viruses daily, and in large volumes, I wonder what the reaction would be? Would we say, “Those individuals have every right to utilize the s-mail system to deliver deadly viruses as they like. It is the receiver’s responsibility to not open those packages.” How many people that disproved of e-mail “surveillance” also disapproved of s-mail surveillance during post 9-11 anthrax attacks? I wonder.
If the s-mail system were used to deliver viruses daily, and in large volumes, I wonder what the reaction would be? Would we say, “Those individuals have every right to utilize the s-mail system to deliver deadly viruses as they like. It is the receiver’s responsibility to not open those packages.” How many people that disproved of e-mail “surveillance” also disapproved of s-mail surveillance during post 9-11 anthrax attacks? I wonder.