U.S. Postal Service Secretly Tracked Almost 50,000 Packages Last YearAndy Cush10/28/14 10:30am623EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkWith all the U.S. government surveillance of electronic communications that's come to light over the past year, you might be tempted to think that good-old-fashioned snail mail offers a safe alternative. You'd be wrong.