{"id":2794,"date":"2014-11-19T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:48:44","slug":"yes-the-government-can-open-your-mail-without-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/yes-the-government-can-open-your-mail-without-a-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the Government Can Open Your Mail Without a Warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2798\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/yes-the-government-can-open-your-mail-without-a-warrant\/us-postal-service-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1125\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"US Postal Service Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#8217;s in the mail? Less and lower margin stuff. Source: Wikipedia.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-300x225.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-1024x768.png\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2798\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-300x225.png\" alt=\"US Postal Service Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/US-Postal-Service-Logo.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/39\/404\">By law<\/a>, first-class mail is sealed against inspection, meaning that government officials may not open it without first getting a warrant from a judge. A citizen would be forgiven for imagining that this law ensures his or her mail is private, but that\u2019s not quite true.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, other classes of mail do not have the same privacy protection as first-class mail. Additionally, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governmentattic.org\/\">GovernmentAttic.org<\/a>, we now know the federal government has established three broad exceptions to first-class mail\u2019s \u201csealed against inspection\u201d protection.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governmentattic.org\/13docs\/DOJviewsLetters_2005-2007.pdf\">2007 U.S. Department of Justice<\/a> letter lays out the circumstances under which mail may be opened without a warrant&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/2014\/11\/19\/yes-the-government-can-open-your-mail-without-a-warrant\/\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By law, first-class mail is sealed against inspection, meaning that government officials may not open it without first getting a warrant from a judge. A citizen would be forgiven for imagining that this law ensures his or her mail is private, but that\u2019s not quite true. For one thing, other classes of mail do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[65,161,162],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governmental-entities","category-postal-service","category-privacy","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-J4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}