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[[File:IDET2007 StB steam envelope opener.jpg|thumb|right|"The Steamboat" - mobile steaming equipment used by Czech [[StB]] for unsticking of envelopes during correspondence surveillance]]
Documents should generally not be read by anyone other than the addressee; for example, in the United States of America it is a violation of federal law for anyone other than the addressee and the government to open mail.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1702.html |title=United States Code: Title 18, 1702. Obstruction of correspondence |publisher=Legal Information Institute of Cornell University Law School |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref> There are exceptions however: executives often assign secretaries or assistants the task of handling their mail; and postcards do not require opening and can be read by anyone. For mail contained within an envelope, there are legal provisions in some jurisdictions allowing the recording of identities of sender and recipient.<ref name="deccan">[http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan172006/panorama19352006116.asp Back when spies played by the rules], ''Deccan Herald'', January 17, 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2006.</ref>
The privacy of correspondence is guaranteed by the constitutions of [[Constitution of Mexico|Mexico]], [[Constitution of Colombia|Colombia]] and [[Constitution of Brazil|Brazil]], and is alluded to in the [[European Convention on Human Rights]]<ref>Article 8(1): Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. {{cite web|url= |title=[http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/D5CC24A7-DC13-4318-B457-5C9014916D7A/0/EnglishAnglais.pdf] }} {{small|(179 KB)}}</ref> and the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].<ref name="deccan"/> The control of the contents inside private citizens' mail is [[censorship]] and concerns social, political, and legal aspects of [[civil rights]]. International mail and packages are subject to [[customs]] control, with the mail and packages are often surveyed and their contents sometimes are edited out (or even in).{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
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