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I went down to send a box to a friend in Calf. I gave UPS the address and when she printed it out the address showed box going to Minnesota. I had sent a box to same person in Minnesota three months ago so girl read name brought up MN address and printed it that way. I guess UPS keeps everything on file ever sent by them. Once anything gets into a computer it will stay there until the Sun burns out. FYI it costs 7.85 more to send something to CA than MN.
 
What's between your ears is still safe.
 
Saw a video on youtube where a guy who does work on diesel trucks in his garage for friends and family. Makes a little bit of money and makes videos showing how to do it. One day he gets a knock at the door and it's a police officer and a Homeland Security agent. They want to talk to him about his recent internet purchase of a large quantity of "suppressor parts". He said he had made no such purchase. They then showed him copies of his orders from a diesel supply house. He had ordered a bunch of large diesel filters. He had also, on another day, ordered a sight for a rifle. They put two and two together and came up with dangerous person. He said they seemed to believe him and left but he doesn't know if he's in the clear or what. 2 simple, legal transactions and Big Brother came to the door. Not sure how I feel about that. Seems oppressive but then everybody always asks, "Why didn't anyone find out about him before he killed 50 people?"
 
FYI it costs 7.85 more to send something to CA than MN.

I think if you use those Priority Mail boxes they give you for free at the post office it's same price regardless of weight, etc. isn't their advertising something like ....... If it fits it ships?
 
I went down to send a box to a friend in Calf. I gave UPS the address and when she printed it out the address showed box going to Minnesota. I had sent a box to same person in Minnesota three months ago so girl read name brought up MN address and printed it that way. I guess UPS keeps everything on file ever sent by them. Once anything gets into a computer it will stay there until the Sun burns out. FYI it costs 7.85 more to send something to CA than MN.


You do realize that they kept the record of the original transaction for your convenience. I would have been more worried if you had given the recipient's name and it had come up with the new address.
 
Honestly I don't know what the big deal is. If they had saved your credit card number or something I would have worried.

Not some random person's shipping address, big deal. Those of us with shipping accounts have addresses saved all the time.
 
Saw a video on youtube where a guy who does work on diesel trucks in his garage for friends and family. Makes a little bit of money and makes videos showing how to do it. One day he gets a knock at the door and it's a police officer and a Homeland Security agent. They want to talk to him about his recent internet purchase of a large quantity of "suppressor parts". He said he had made no such purchase. They then showed him copies of his orders from a diesel supply house. He had ordered a bunch of large diesel filters. He had also, on another day, ordered a sight for a rifle. They put two and two together and came up with dangerous person. He said they seemed to believe him and left but he doesn't know if he's in the clear or what. 2 simple, legal transactions and Big Brother came to the door. Not sure how I feel about that. Seems oppressive but then everybody always asks, "Why didn't anyone find out about him before he killed 50 people?"

Sounds like they added 2+2 and came up with 5.36 this time.;)
 
Saw a video on youtube where a guy who does work on diesel trucks in his garage for friends and family. Makes a little bit of money and makes videos showing how to do it. One day he gets a knock at the door and it's a police officer and a Homeland Security agent. They want to talk to him about his recent internet purchase of a large quantity of "suppressor parts". He said he had made no such purchase. They then showed him copies of his orders from a diesel supply house. He had ordered a bunch of large diesel filters. He had also, on another day, ordered a sight for a rifle. They put two and two together and came up with dangerous person. He said they seemed to believe him and left but he doesn't know if he's in the clear or what. 2 simple, legal transactions and Big Brother came to the door. Not sure how I feel about that. Seems oppressive but then everybody always asks, "Why didn't anyone find out about him before he killed 50 people?"

I agree that the mechanic who made the purchases should be mad about what happened, but I also think the businesses whom he bought those items from should be angry as well! The government already gets a portion of your sales (in the form of taxes), but do they have to get what you sold and who you sold it to as well - and undoubtedly without compensation!?!?

Lists of names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc. are a valuable commodity - that's the bread and butter of mass marketing. If somebody wants something from me (even if it's only a list) for their own purposes then I would expect to be compensated for the value. Or at least see a search warrant describing what info they wanted and why they thought I was involved.

A few years back, everybody had a fit when the phone companies were providing the feds with metadata on phone calls (the number you were calling from, the number you were calling to, and the duration of the call). No conversations were recorded so there was no wiretapping, but people literally had a cow over that. I see this type of data harvesting from retail sales to be exactly the same thing, and yet so far nobody seems to even remotely care about it. :mad:
 
I think if you use those Priority Mail boxes they give you for free at the post office it's same price regardless of weight, etc. isn't their advertising something like ....... If it fits it ships?
I thought of that and it would have been cheaper but I really needed the box get there in 4 or 5 days. Right now I am still getting Christmas cards:D
 
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I just have to shake my head about folks who are against gun registration who post gun photos of their gun purchases on varied gun forums.

I agree 100%, and I have never posted pictures for two reasons.
One is privacy and two, I don't know how to post pictures.
Also if I have ever stated as to ownership of any firearms, these
were probably sold to pay medical bills over the last 3 years or
have given them away to my nephews.

We had a saying in the Navy, "loose lips sink ships". The same
may apply here.
 
OP, don’t worry about the post office. They’re a bunch of amateurs when it comes to collecting data. Heck, so is the government.

If you want to worry about privacy, and who is collecting your data, these are the ones to worry about.

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When I’m looking to buy something online, ads for it will appear on my wife’s facebook (I don’t have Facebook) within the hour.
 
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