if you don't want your mail opened

don't correspond with 80 year old professors in the philippines (or anyone else for that matter. and don't blog and don't phone anyone and don't talk to anyone and on and on and on...........)

History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security
By Matthew Rothschild January 2, 2006
Grant Goodman is an 81-year-old emeritus professor of Asian history at the University of Kansas.
He has had an ongoing correspondence by snail mail with a former professor of history at the University of the Philippines, where Goodman had taught on three separate occasions.
In early December, he was shocked when a letter arrived from her that had already been opened.
“The bottom of the envelope had been slashed open and then retaped with green tape,” says Goodman. “And it said, ‘Opened by Border Protection’ in great big letters. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal is on it, too.”
Goodman believes his rights have been “absolutely” violated, he says. “I just couldn’t believe it and wondered what in the world is going on.”
This story was broken by Joel Mathis of the Lawrence Journal-World.