Right NOW go to USPS.com and upper right corner you see INFORMED DELIVERY

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28. Don't want to be Debbie Downer on Informed Delivery, but please beware of possible hacking

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Thieves are using 'informed delivery' to spy on mail and commit fraud
https://mashable.com/article/usps-informed-delivery-fraud/

Welp, another day and another way for thieves to violate your privacy and commit credit card fraud.

Scammers have figured out how to view your mail before it even arrives at your house, and have used this advantage to open credit card accounts in victims' names and then time the theft of new cards from mailboxes pretty much the moment they arrive. And the tool giving crooks this edge comes courtesy of the United States Postal Service.

Read more at link:

USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ Is Stalker’s Dream
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/usps-informed-delivery-is-stalkers-dream/

A review of the methods used by the USPS to validate new account signups suggests the service is wide open to abuse by a range of parties, mainly because of weak authentication and because it is not easy to opt out of the service.

Signing up requires an eligible resident to create a free user account at USPS.com, which asks for the resident’s name, address and an email address. The final step in validating residents involves answering four so-called “knowledge-based authentication” or KBA questions. KrebsOnSecurity has relentlessly assailed KBA as an unreliable authentication method because so many answers to the multiple-guess questions are available on sites like Spokeo and Zillow, or via social networking profiles.

Once signed up, a resident can view scanned images of the front of each piece of incoming mail in advance of its arrival. Unfortunately, because of the weak KBA questions (provided by recently-breached big-three credit bureau Equifax, no less) stalkers, jilted ex-partners, and private investigators also can see who you’re communicating with via the Postal mail.

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