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dkf

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17. They are already using it for these purposes.

Reply to Occulus (Reply #10)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:43 PM

Jun 2013

Just because you think it's being erased doesn't mean it is. I bet they are keeping this set of data and that it won't ever be erased otherwise they have lost their evidence.

If you can do it in this case you can do it period.

This is just like saying the gun background check and registration data will be erased. Puhleeze

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USPS photographs front and back of every envelope that runs through the system. [View all] dkf Jun 2013 OP

Oh, this is disingenuous as all hell. Occulus Jun 2013 #1

They may not have been storing it in your day but they are now. dkf Jun 2013 #2

"in my day" included that time period Occulus Jun 2013 #3

So why are DMIs trained on MICT? FarCenter Jun 2013 #6

Because it's their job. Occulus Jun 2013 #9

OP said "MICT program which photographs and captures an image of every mail piece that is processed" FarCenter Jun 2013 #12

PICS is the image capture system; MICT is something else entirely Occulus Jun 2013 #13

Lockheed Martin Wins $93 Million U.S. Postal Service Contract To Upgrade Image Processors on Bar Cod FarCenter Jun 2013 #14

Except that the only mail going in front of the image lift camera Occulus Jun 2013 #20

Why isn't it spying? treestar Jun 2013 #22

thanks for the information. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #11

It just didn't go the way you thought it would, did it, dkf? Occulus Jun 2013 #4

Seems to be a daily occurrance. Kingofalldems Jun 2013 #7

Good government requires good watchdogs. dkf Jun 2013 #8

You have to know what you're talking about first. Occulus Jun 2013 #10

They are already using it for these purposes. dkf Jun 2013 #17

I did this for a living, dkf Occulus Jun 2013 #18

+1. n/t FSogol Jun 2013 #15

No wonder they are going broke BainsBane Jun 2013 #5

Really, storage for that many photographs must be a mother. Savannahmann Jun 2013 #16

Around 3000 letters per GByte or 3 million per TByte. FarCenter Jun 2013 #19

This is bizarre treestar Jun 2013 #21

Its how they sort mail mechanically at extremely high speed 1-Old-Man Jun 2013 #23