It's not done to help YOU. It's done to help THEM SNOOP ON YOU.
You obviously have not kept up with the technology nor have you read the article.
“It’s not done to help YOU. It’s done to help THEM SNOOP ON YOU.”
The post office has had automated letter sorting equipment for decades and those machines use optical character recognition.
That OCR software by its nature acquires images of letters as it sorts them. Their Informed Delivery service is allowing us to see the images that their sorting machinery generates.