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You could generate a special email address just for that purpose.
If someone really was up to getting your letters, it's pretty easy to just drive by and take them from your mailbox, no?
Or go to the post office, and take out all the discarded letters from the trash bin.
My mailbox has a lock and key, but I get the point. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not without concern about this program. Note, I'm even more concerned that anyone can sign up without verifying that they live at a particular address and can see all the outside of all the mail being delivered to that address/unit. That said, as long as the program is available, I'm going to take advantage of the program, too.
Wow, this sounds ripe for being hacked! Let the thieves know ahead of time what will be in your mailbox.
Call me paranoid, but I don't think I want images of my mail in cyber space.
Then don't sign up for it. It's optional. The USPS isn't going to track down what email you use and send the images unsolicited.
I won't use it, but not out of some wild-eyed fear that someone is going to hack my laptop so they can figure out when to steal my monthly copy of Backpacker or some invitation to a wedding (what are they going to do? fill out the RSVP and choose 'liver' for dinner knowing that I hate liver?) but because I don't need to know three hours ahead of time what I'm getting in the meal. I can wait the three hours.
Worry about it or not, It's obviously a personal choice.
For me, I think it's dangerous. And for goodness' sake, why would anyone need to know what mail is going to show up today?
If you have something being delivered from say, Amazon, you will have that tracking info.
Why would you need to have a separate service telling you what will show up otherwise, randomly, in the mail? And take the chance someone could hack that info?
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I recently registered for this service myself, it's working just great.
To make sure that you are who you say you are, they ask questions about former places of residence, and the last four digits of your social security number.
If someone hacks my email then them seeing an envelope scan of my mail is the least of my worries. I'd be more concerned about them having access to my Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts.
I don't get addressed mail everyday. InformedDelivery lets me know if I should go to the mailbox. A declining number of Americans get delivery to the door.
"The Postal Reform Act of 2013, which is being considered today by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, would end “to the door” delivery in favor of curbside service or neighborhood cluster boxes.
According to the committee, 28 percent of addresses now receive “to the door” service , while 42 percent receive curbside mail delivery and 30 percent received centralized delivery [community boxes or apartments]. The Postal Reform Act would require “to the door” service to be phased out over 10 years, saving an estimated $4 billion per year. "
I recently registered for this service myself, it's working just great.
To make sure that you are who you say you are, they ask questions about former places of residence, and the last four digits of your social security number.
Are these questions before you get approved for the program? I wasn't asked that when signing up.
Worry about it or not, It's obviously a personal choice.
For me, I think it's dangerous. And for goodness' sake, why would anyone need to know what mail is going to show up today?
If you have something being delivered from say, Amazon, you will have that tracking info.
Why would you need to have a separate service telling you what will show up otherwise, randomly, in the mail? And take the chance someone could hack that info?
I just don't see the upside.
Most letters these days are advertisement. Some folks, especially those without delivery at their door don't want to take the time to empty a mailbox full of junk to them.
The bad side is that as more boxes get full more because the email pictures said nothing important again then on the actual day someone finally goes to empty the box for the letters that they were waiting for only to find letters were returned because that box was full to the brim with unclaimed junk.
Okay, I see that someone with a mailbox that is not at their address, and who normally doesn't go to their box to check it - might find some use in this service.
It's just kind of funny all of the needs that have been created for more, faster info all the time. And somehow we all got along before these kinds of services, and checking your mail whenever you went to town.
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