Scanning the Mail Wow. This just hit me over the head.... About 3 weeks ago I signed up for a service being offered by the US Postal Service. Every morning they email me, and attached to the email is a thumbnail picture of every piece of mail to be delivered to me that day. This service is not that new, it has been going on since the beginning of the year. So realize this..... that service offered me is just a side effect -- the Post Office is scanning every piece of mail. Every. Piece. Of. Mail. Image stored in a database linked to an address. All the mailed out ballots have been scanned. ALL. OF. THEM. This is not hopium. I signed up for the service and have been getting mails for 3 weeks  and I did not think about the implications of this.