Showing your ID to buy stamps?

November 17, 2003 - Privacy News

Debate has begun about "intelligent mail", that is, mail that can easily be tracked and recorded. Right now, "intelligent mail" is used by many businesses to track time-sensitive mail. In the future however, the identities of all senders (and therefore all receivers) of mail could be required before the mail would be sent out.

This would mean showing your ID before you can buy stamps, and probably having particular stamps tied to your identity. Whether it would be illegal to share stamps with a friend is anybody's guess.

More information is available at <http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61140,00.html>.

Last updated November 17, 2003