[TVCasualty]

More good news. Ugh.

I guess my old trick of putting sensitive information I have to carry into Priority Mail envelopes, then addressing, sealing, and affixing postage is about obsolete. Make sure it's addressed to YOU, btw. Because of the (former?) warrant requirement to search first-class mail, simply pulling me over in my car with the envelope in my posession doesn't allow an officer to (legally) look in my sealed envelope without such a warrant. (Unless I put my weed in it and the dog finds it, which I'd never do!)

That privacy trick only works with USPS, not FedEx or UPS or the others. The others are private companies and you sign over to them the right to open your parcel if they feel like it, similar to the private eye-in-the-sky helicopter patrolling Jackson, Mississippi I started a thread about recently...

Lastly, I think the scariest phrase to hear in any discussion of privacy and freedom is "exigent circumstances." If the police want to search your residence or property or mail without a warrant, seems to me a mildly creative person could fabricate exigent circumstances easily.