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I feel like it would be pretty easy to untraceably send a single letter. False return address, address written slowly with your alternate hand (or printed), dropped in an unmonitored street mailbox a few hours away from your home…how would USPIS find such a person?
In that situation, they wouldn’t find them.
But in many other situations, criminals do dumb things like writing their return address.
Printed? Your printer leaves a unique pattern on all its documents. Oooh
Dropped in a mailbox, oooh the neighbour across the road has a ring doorbell
Didn't turn off your phone? Ooooh
Let's be honest though these people probably took a photo of them posting it, and now it's on up on twitter.
My money would be on Truth Social or a QAnon/Maga facebook group.
People underestimate how prevalent camera doorbells are now thanks to ring. At my girlfriends place about 75 percent of her neighbors on the block have em. Just installed a eufy for my mom a little while ago and she's super untech savvy. Her apt building also has about 60 percent door cams.
Super helpful tool with tracking bad guys...but also it's just so creepy and dystopian.
I was trying to see who a stray dog belonged to in my own neighborhood, and pushing the button and talking into these little lenses on every door was so weird.
Neighborhoods are now enclaves full of suspicious hermits...
Municipal or private CCTV by the mailbox? In the UK at least it's quite common.
Letter boxes don’t stamp the specific location in most places. And even if they did, you could just use an outgoing box at a large community, or someone’s house mailbox.
No, but the CCTV installation surely will.
What CCTV? lol.
The ones I mentioned pepper almost every London junction. In metro areas, there's also loads of private installations that can be looked at to help identify and track individuals.
Well, maybe in the police-state UK. But we don’t have that over here. And even if we did, as I said, they couldn’t narrow down the exact box in the postal code and if it was in a heavy traffic are there could be thousands of people dropping mail off daily.
where you live? 1980s?
Not in the UK.
There aren’t cameras watching every nook and cranny of my major metropolitan city. That’s not reality.
Do you live in a major US city? Police 1000% frequently sepenia businesses for CCTV footage, and are increasingly getting standing access to existing cameras. And to a lesser degree I believe they are installing their own cameras, but I have hit my limit of finding sources for someone else's comment while taking a shit.
This just says the police access cameras. It doesn’t say that there are cameras on every male receptacle from apartment complexes to individual houses. There are plenty of places without cameras to put an outgoing letter. I’m not really sure what you’re arguing about. I’m right
Mail drop boxes are not in nooks or crannies. In a city you can bet every intersection and retail space has you on video. Even if you found the truman show magic spot where the cameras don't see, you still need to pass by them to travel there. Further, All corporate retail and most of the rest are using geofencing to track and advertise. If you enter their fence and are not identifiable you are now part of less than 1% of people who maintain minimal privacy. Which makes you stand out for anyone looking for someone nefarious. we are to the point that it is in the courts now to decide if a burner phone itself substantiates intent to commit a crime even. Some idiocracy unscannable kinda shit.
You can place outgoing mail in anyone’s house mailbox and flip up the flag. The chances of identifying the specific house is next to nothing.
UK's one of the most surveilled countries on earth tho innit?
I just like the idea that somebody might be stupid enough to put their real return address on the envelope, and your suggestion is the first time that it's occurred to them that they might not need to do that.