USPS Finally Starts Notifying You by Mail If Someone is Scanning Your Snail Mail Online
Summary: The U.S. Postal Service began alerting households by mail on Feb. 16 whenever someone signs up for Informed Delivery, the service that provides scanned images of incoming mail before delivery. The service had about 8.1 million accounts as of the article, up more than 28 percent from 6.3 million in October 2017, and signup validation relies on four knowledge-based authentication questions drawn from LexisNexis and Equifax.
Why it matters: Anyone who can defeat those KBA questions - a stalker, a jilted ex-partner, or a private investigator - can see who you correspond with by mail, and the USPS previously had no way to tell a resident that someone had signed up at their address.
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