I see no material difference between someone opening a private e-mail account in order to read what is there and someone breaking into a snail-mail box and opening the letters and packages in order to snoop. And as someone pointed out on another thread if this isn’t strongly discouraged by serious investigation and prosecution it is Katie-bar-the-door for every celebrity, government official and politician in the country - not to mention the rest of us.
” and someone breaking into a snail-mail box and opening the letters and packages in order to snoop.’
The US Postal Service would be prosecuting Obama’s people if they had stolen Palin’s mail.
They get very touchy about things like that.
One time my wife mailed our son at college some paperwork -she dropped the letter in the mailbox and then remembered in her haste, she had forgotten to put the stamps on it.
The pick up was soon, so she hung around the mail box and when the mailman arrived , she explained the situation and asked if she could add the postage when he opened the box.
Absolutely not ...he had to do it.
After seeing some ID to make certain the return address matched her name.
She was only allowed to point out the letter, was forbidden to touch it at all and he had to apply the stamps.
Once in the box, it belonged to the USPS.
And this was pre 9/11.
Someone should be doing a perp walk soon.