Big Brother is watching us

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Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 22, 2013 at 9:43pm

Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 17, 2013 at 4:22pm

http://www.slashgear.com/man-uses-hidden-camera-to-chronicle-a-pack...

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on July 17, 2013 at 1:40am

Yes, an interesting envelope from Australia! (thanks a lot, Sender!).

Showing some phenomenon which is new to me: a sticker (in real it's fluorescant orange) by the Australian Post, saying 'ID Recorded'!...

Seems to be an other example of postal BB. Always good to watch 'them', investigate in return :-)

Looking for an answer to the question: 'What's this about?' I found several solutions.

According to one of these writers it's the sender who has to show his/her ID and therefore cannot send post anonymously. According to this official looking document and this one stickering is necessary for items which are heavier than 500 grams (my received mail was 64 grams).

According to some people, we don't have to worry about it, we can continue sleeping well. According to others you should be cautious and not fill out more paperwork than you have to (see Dangermouse's comment here), in other locations the sticker confuses the local post office, and others have vivid and interesting discussions about the subject.

Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 15, 2013 at 6:09pm

Comment by Raphael'L on July 14, 2013 at 7:39am

If art is never innocent ... so it is necessarily guilty? And the mail-art is a traveler... so is it doubly suspect? ;-)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 14, 2013 at 7:09am

Comment by borderlinegrafix on July 13, 2013 at 6:22pm

Comment by Susan McAllister on July 13, 2013 at 6:18pm

What would be innocent photographing of our mail? I'm not sure there is any.

Comment by Suus in Mokum on July 13, 2013 at 5:56pm

Good to know! I will do my better best from now on in chosing and/or decorating the envelops. Is that really a job? Photographing snailmail?

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on July 13, 2013 at 2:38pm

Welcome to this group!
From now on you are watched more closely by Big Brother (and Sister) than before, too!

I was triggered, and decided to start a group on this subject, by the newspaper article you see below.
I found it in a Dutch newspaper recently (it was published the 6th of July 2013). It says that in the US all - snail mail! - envelopes and postcards are photographed for the authorities.
In total yearly it's 16 billion (16 Dutch miljard = 16,000,000,000) pieces of mail.

On one hand it's a nice idea that also our mail art is pictured by the American authorities. We hope they'll appreciate our art!
On the other hand it makes me frown and wonder: how much time there will be between innocent 'photographing', and injust incriminating, simply because of creative mail?
For the non-US world citizens: how about your countries?

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