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How To Protect Your Postal Mail Privacy
By Max Penn
Surreptious opening of most envelopes sent through the mail
takes little effort and only minimal skill. Instructions are readily
available on the Internet and in books such as "CIA Flaps and
Seals Manual" (Paladin Press).
While your mail is in the hands of the postal service it is
relatively secure from outside snooping but readily available
to postal employees and the alphabet soup of government
agencies that may, for whatever reason, take an interest in
your private correspondence. If your mail is delivered to your
home, perhaps to a box at the end of your driveway,
someone can easily remove your mail before you do, unless
you are waiting when the postment delivers it.
LET ME ASK YOU THIS...
If a private investigation or neighborhood snoop removed
private letters from your mailbox, carefully opened them,
recorded the contents, and then resealed them and returned
them to your mailbox, would you know it?
If you received a letter in the mail on Wednesdays instead of
tuesday, would you be aware that it had been missing that
day?
HOW GOVERNMENT KEEP THEIR MAIL PRIVATE
When government agencies send sensitive material, they
double-wrap it to prevent it's surreptitious opening. The
government procedure is to place the sensitive material in an
envelope, seal all seams and edges with tape, and record
appropriate addresses and security markings on the
envelope.
This envelope is then placed into a second envelope, which
then has all edges and seams sealed with tape. The outer
envelope is addressed, but there are no security markings
recorded on it. This is effective, but the outer envelope with all
edges and seams sealed with tape stands out from ordinary
mail.
HOW YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR MAIL PRIVATE
For security of personal correspondence I recommend double-
wrapping
your private letters, but with a bit of a change. Instead of
sealing just the edges of the inner envelope, i use clear
sealing tape or clear packing tape.
1- Cut a lenght of tape twice the lenght of your inner
envelope.
Place the tape on a table, adhesive side up. You may need
two strips of sealing/packing tape to cover the entire width of
the envelope (I was able to obtain 4-inch-wide packing tape,
which works well for the smaller 3 5/8 x 6-inch personal
correspondence envelopes, from a local moving company).
2- Now, after sealing your envelope, place it on the adhesive
portion of the tape and then fold the tape around the
envelope so that it covers all surfaces.Leave a slight edge of
tape around the envelope so that you can have an adhesive-
toadhesive seal. This type of seal, covering all surfaces of the
envelope, is damn near impossible to get into in a
surreptitious manner.
3- Now, place the sealed envelope in an out envelope and
seal and address it normally.
The outer envelope doesn't stand out from other letters, but
your private correspondence sealed inside is protected from
snoops.
Even the old tricks of using chemical sprays to make the
envelope momentarily transparent won't work because the
inner envelope is completely wrapped in tape and therefore
impenetrable by these sprays.
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