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Funny reading that from someone with your nickname :-)

The Deutsche Post, or DHL is sort of tracking too, since a looong time. By having their delivery minions gather information about the circumstances people live in, and selling that information to interested parties.

>>LargoL+(OP)
Any proofs?

>>fsflov+cD1
I'd like to deliver, but it seems what I've read long ago is lost now, or buried under more recent and digital things which don't directly apply to the specific gathering in person by their delivery personnel. With the exception of the first part of the Spiegel.de article which mentions 'Lebensweise'. Unfortunately the link from there to the source is rotten, and isn't archived/cached anywhere.

I'm sure I've read much more about that, some 20 years ago, and after. Some small blips in the press, several fora. Sometimes even from people who claimed to be, or have been working as postman, and described what they had to look for (like house being renovated, new windows, nice garden, door, car, or in appartment houses clean floors, door mats, no trash, graffiti, what 'sort' of people) how to write it down in forms, and so on. Which annoyed them, because it was a hassle, unrelated to their job/task.

Anyways, they do have that data, gathered by whichever means, and sell them. As is obvious from their own sites.

It may be that they changed parts of that recently, because incompatible with EU-Law, DSGVO/GDPR, whatnot, but they did it.

[German] https://www.deutschepost.de/de/d/deutsche-post-direkt.html

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzwelt-ticker-deutsche...

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/faq-post-daten-101.html

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/datenverkauf-an-cdu-und-fdp-d...

[English] https://www.deutschepost.com/en/business-customers/dialogue-...

---------------------- Letter is lost. Shrug.