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4ad on June 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enfor...

Why should I need to opt-out? What about people who want this having to opt-in?

Wait, that wouldn't work because nobody wants this junk.

eli on June 22, 2014 | [–]

shrug

This seems an awfully inconsequential thing to get worked up about.

XorNot on June 22, 2014 | [–]

Because you'd also have to opt-in to receiving mail from anyone else who wanted to send mail to you.

That's the point of public communications.

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