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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sure. I wrote plenty of sappy love notes on postcards. Why not?
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Good question.
Postal workers are forbidden to read U.S. mail addressed to others. Googling, it seems to have been forbidden as long ago
as 1877.
What about our landline? Is there now a law against the carrier listening in as part of, say, a sincere effort to monitor call quality? I'm guessing yes, but don't know for sure. It was
commonplace for operators to listen in on calls long after 1877.
In the 1970's. I had a party line. It wasn't mandatory, but you had to pay extra for private service. This was another reason why post cards were more private than telephones.