Here is my main complaint about that. There is less and less privacy for everyone because of the internet today. Young people often have no idea what it was ever like to have privacy of any kind. I find this sad in the extreme. So, the last means of having hopefully fully private communications over thousands of miles will be gone? That's crazy.
If you know anything at all about hackers (computer hackers) anyone can steal almost anything you or I have written or sent over the internet just by hacking the servers that relay our information which usually never delete (at most once a year) whatever is sent through the server. So, literally the most private thing you or I might send in an unguarded moment over the internet or something that your daughter or son sends between midnight and 6 am to someone could be intercepted. Or any business transaction or legal transaction including anything between your lawyer and yourself could be intercepted by literally (ANYONE) ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. And they could do ANYTHING with that information.
Everything I have mentioned here and more is why we still need a U.S. Postal Service. Because most of the time a letter you send actually has some privacy especially if it is hand written. However, ANYTHING you send over the internet for any reason is never really secure or private at all. This is a given. So, if all you want is an eternal BIG BROTHER watching your every move through a supercomputer that is flagging words relevant to who knows who governmental or not, vote to end the Postal Service. Because 1984, the book is what you will eventually get whether it is you that lives like that or your children. What is fun and quick now might be fatal to us all 25, 50, or 100 years from now. Think about it.
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