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Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03958.html --- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:42:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "John F. McMullen" <observer@westnet.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: Re: FC: U.S. Postal Service now requires ID to send packages? It's not just college POs -- my local USPS Post Office has a notice posted that ID must be presented when mailing a package of over a pound -- and, although it could annoy some, it sounds fine to me. > --- --- From: "George M. Ellenburg" <george@ellenburg.org> To: declan@well.com Subject: Re: FC: U.S. Postal Service now requires ID to send packages? Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:36:21 -0400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Contract stations must adhere to the same regulations as regular post offices (it's in their contract). All one needs to do is ask the employee, "Show me where in the DMM it says I need to present an ID to ship a package?" The DMM is called the Domestic Mail Manual, and is available to anyone upon request at any post office (it may need to be ordered). It is a government document, that is basically the SOP for the USPS and covers everything from stamps to po boxes to business mail. A link to an online version of the Domestic Mail Manual is: http://pe.usps.gov/ - -- George > The only way that I can see that this could be legal > is due to the fact that our university requires students to present their > student ID to any campus official when asked to do so. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9edauFItzMEWZZdgRAqzYAJ4s00BAOzeNXFRhr4Talc6VAaS44wCdEn95 l3aitzvdZgxBO/9E3TMbHIo= =kHZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- From: "Ben Serebin" <ben@serebin.com> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: Re: U.S. Postal Service now requires ID to send packages? Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 09:11:50 -0400 Hello Declan, This is not at only College campus POs, it also occurs in regular ones (NYC POs). I've mailed an assortment of packages in my own packaging and USPS packaging, and they usually ask for ID when shipping with my own packaging. I think all they are doing is checking to insure the return address matches the name on the ID. I know this because my ID lists a different address than my packages, and not a single PO employee has ever questioned this. I'd consider this ID checking almost pointless, and is done to probably make the general public and the post office feel more safe. More false sense of security after 9/11 and the anthrax mailer. -Ben --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------