The article "How to keep your postal mail private and secure" talks about communications, it has been created by Max Penn.
Surreptious opening of most envelopes sent through the mail
takes little effort and only minimal skill.
Instructions are
readily available on the Internet and in books suc as "CIA Flaps
and Seals Manual" (Paladin Press).
While your mail is in the hands of the postal service it is
relatively secure from outside snooping but readily available to
postal employees and the alphbaet soup of government agencies
that may, for whatever reason, take an interest in your private
correspondence.
If your mail is delivered to your home, perhaps
to a box at the end of your driveway, someone can easily remove
your mail before you do, unless you are waiting when the
postment delivers it.
LET ME ASK YOU THIS... If a private investigation or
neighborhood snoop removed private letters from your mailbox,
carefully opened them, recorded the contents, and then resealed
them and returned them to your mailbox, would you know it? If
you received a letter in the mail on Wednesadys instead of
tuesday, would you be aware that it had been missing that day?
HOW GOVERNMENT KEEP THEIR MAIL PRIVATE When government agencies
send sensitive material, they double-wrap it to prevent it's
surreptitious opening.
The government procedure is to place the
sensitive material in an envelope, seal all seams and edges with
tape, and record appropriate addresses and security marknigs on
the envelope.
This envelope is then plcaed into a second envelope, which then
has all edges and seams sealed with tape. The outer envelpoe is
addressed, but there is no security markings recorded on it.
This is effective, but the outer envelope with all edges and
seams sealed with tape stands out from ordinary mail.
HOW YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR MAIL PRIVATE For security of personal
correspondence I recommend double-wrapping your private letters,
but with a bit of a change. Instead of sealing just the edges of
the inner envelope, i use clear sealing tape or clear packing
tape.
1- Cut a lenght of tape tiwce the lenght of your inner envelope.
Place the tape on a table, adhesive side up. You may need two
strips of sealing/packing tape to coevr the entire width of the
envelope (I was able to obtain 4-inch-wide packing tape, which
works well for the smaller 3 5/8 x 6-inch personal
correspondence envelopes, from a local moving company). 2- Now,
after sealing your envelope, place it on the adhesive portion of
the tape and then fold the tape around the envelope so that it
covers all surfaces.Leave a slight edge of tape aruond the
envelope so that you can have an adhesive-toadhesive seal. This
type of seal, covering all surfaces of the envelope, is damn
near imposisble to get into in a surreptitious manner.
3- Now, place the sealed envelope in an out envelope and seal
and address it normally.
The outer evnelope doesn't stand out from other letters, but
your private correspondence sealed inside is protected from
snoops.
Even the old tricks of using chemical sparys to make the
envelope momentarily transparent won't work cause the inner
envelope is completely wrapped in tape and therefore
impenetrable by these sprays.
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