—mail covers, ie the recording by postal employees of the outsides of first-class envelops and sometimes the insides of lower-class mail addressed to a given person, falls outside the coverage of the fourth amendment

Justice Stewart and several lower federal courts have noted that there is no "general constitutional right of privacy

—recognizing Paton, but holding warrantless use of “mail covers” (inspecting and recording the outside of envelopes sent through the mail) does not violate the Fourth Amendment

The Fifth Circuit, following the definitional style of section 1961 (4), has held that the definition includes "'any... group of individuals' whose association, however loose or informal, furnishes a vehicle for the commission of two or more predicate crimes

No judicial officer is involved in any stage of the proceedings, and records are kept by the Postal Service only.

Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan-Invisible Empire Inc; Horace King; Arthur A. Haley; Hubert "Herbert" L. Rowell; Timothy A. Welch; and Gary C. Cox, In the Court of Common Pleas for the third Judicial Circuit, Second Amended Complaint, Civil Action No. 96-CP-14-217, Dec. 29, 1997.

If the interest is imperfect, as in the case of an automobile, or is penetrated by even minimal voluntary exposure, 26s at least some element of fourth amendment protection is sacrificed, regardless of whether the interest is in information or property

—users of the postal system have no meaningful expectation of privacy concerning the information on the outside of the envelopes they send or receive

—mail cover furnishing information on face of packages or envelopes does not violate a recipient's fourth amendment rights

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