The content and addresses of the letters you send cease to be 'your information' the moment they enter the mail system.
Does this mean we expect, Constitutionally, for them to be penetrated by government overseers?
If the Constitutional protection were about one's diary, something one expects never to transmit to another, that would be another matter, but the clause is implicitly understood to apply to information transmission and storage between people.
The text of the 4th amendment says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
Which of those are things you transmit between people? Note the use of the word "paper" (connotative of something you keep in a desk, like a diary) versus the word "letter" (connotative of something you send to someone else).
The addresses of Postal mail have never been considered "your information" protected by the 4th amendment. The contents of Postal mail are considered protected, but given that the protection does not extend to UPS/FedEx/etc, it seems to be based on the unique status of the Postal service as an organ of the government.
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The content and addresses of the letters you send cease to be 'your information' the moment they enter the mail system.
Does this mean we expect, Constitutionally, for them to be penetrated by government overseers?
If the Constitutional protection were about one's diary, something one expects never to transmit to another, that would be another matter, but the clause is implicitly understood to apply to information transmission and storage between people.
The text of the 4th amendment says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
Which of those are things you transmit between people? Note the use of the word "paper" (connotative of something you keep in a desk, like a diary) versus the word "letter" (connotative of something you send to someone else).
The addresses of Postal mail have never been considered "your information" protected by the 4th amendment. The contents of Postal mail are considered protected, but given that the protection does not extend to UPS/FedEx/etc, it seems to be based on the unique status of the Postal service as an organ of the government.
You've claimed this before, and still haven't identified the precedent which holds the government can force UPS/FedEx/etc. to turn over packages.