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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 2050474, member: 37498&quot;]A bar code is nothing more than a number printed in barcode font, and that number can be linked to just about anything inside a database.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the label was printed from eBay/PayPal, it is entirely conceivable that the USPS could link that tracking number to an auction.&nbsp; Even if the tracking number was &quot;created beforehand&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole &quot;created beforehand&quot; thing is puzzling to me.&nbsp; Why would that make any difference?&nbsp; That&#039;s like saying a health insurance company can&#039;t use your social security number to track your activity because your SSN was &quot;created beforehand&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s in the user agreement(s), and I&#039;m too lazy to go and read all their legaleze right now, but auction information isn&#039;t the sort of information that they have to notify you that they are sharing.&nbsp; That is limited to personally identifiable information, financial information, education records, and medial records.&nbsp; In the eyes of the law, your name and address are more sensitive than what you purchased in an auction, and I&#039;m fairly certain eBay/PayPal are sharing your name and address with the USPS when you print a shipping label.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this is true, and I have no reason to disbelieve OldGoldGuy, it would certainly explain how a package that was sent to me containing three old quarter eagles was pilfered under very similar circumstances a while back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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