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by bogomipz 3437 days ago
>"To use a non-digital analogy: It’s as if the NSA sent agents to the U.S. Postal Service’s major processing centers to conduct continuous searches of everyone’s international mail."

It's worth noting that U.S. Post Office also records meta data of all snail mail:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms...

The last paragraph in the above link being completely laughable if course.