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Hahahaha!
I'm not a Russian, rather Romanian. But I heard stories how all the mail coming from the outside was checked and "vetted for anything suspicious" at the border during communism. Since we and USSR were on the same team I suppose they did the same. And how the way the public institutions work barely changed, nowadays, given the current situation, I expect them to return to that practice.
So yeah, I wouldn't trust snail mail with anything sensitive.
Spot on haha. I doubt they have time to read every single snail mail, but I won't ever write anything important in a snail mail sent to Russia.
Well start with a few not-that-private letters to check for evidence of their being opened. What happens with ordinary email by the way?
~~Hmmm, that's true. Probably OP checked this, but now that you mentioned it, I would do the same ๐~~
Screw that, they were reading all the foreign mail coming through. And you could still be unable to see if they opened your envelope because they were either carefully opening it and close it back, or simply use another one.
I expect it was previously appealing based on the fact that only the vendor had access (of course, now it no longer applies).
Maybe another option is to use one of the private providers that do not track you and are less mainstream than Proton. Let's say Tuta or Mailbox.org (if they are not blocked already too). Probably encrypt the emails with PGP too for more security.