curious george

does anybody here understand the process behind having an address flagged? is it just the address or the name aswell?

Say i get a po box flagged, then i decide to rent another po box somewhere else, does that flag follow me to that new box?

What about a regular envelope sent to my new box, no tracking or anything just an envelope will the postal service be swine and open and try to find some goods? who finds out my mail is flagged? the post office employees at mylocal mail carriar? i mean, do they have a list of every criminal with a flag hanging in the breakroom?

really, who' keeps track of all this, i can understand a package with a tracking number popping up in the system saying, "ya flagged", but a regular envelope, does all mail get labeled and typed in the system? or a computer scanner scans each envelope and is able to decrypt all information? no, that would eliminate drop zones from being usable, so its not that.

just curious.................george

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[1 Points] Theeconomist1:

I'm not expert BUT I highly doubt your mailman would know or have much to do with your mail being watched. This would most likely happen elsewhere and process initiated long before it reaches your carrier. I don't think even your local PO would know but they could in some scenarios. I've long felt that you have nothing to fear about your mailman. He isn't the one going to cause you problems. Exception might be if your pack breaks open while he has it. But mail would be held further upstream. Sorters know your addy on envelope instantly. Wouldn't take much to reroute it where it can be examined.

These are just educated guesses. I'm not a USPS employee nor LE. Although I do okay LE on the sub once in a while :)


[1 Points] Theeconomist1:

Mail is not manually typed in the system. OCR technology is employed that reads the address label as it flies by in the sorter. If a label was not readable it's diverted to a place where it will be manually looked at. This is one reason typed labels are preferable. Handwritten labels increase the chance that OCR can't read it and then has to be handled by a person. It's all automated. And it's just as easy to put a rule that if mailed destined to a certain person is being investigated that it is automatically routed to proper place for further inspection.