(October 29, 2014) Gwen Ifill sits down with Ron Nixon of The New York Times, who has been investigating this story for more than a year. As worries grow about technology, surveillance and privacy, it turns out the government is watching your snail mail too. A new report from The New York Times finds the U.S. Postal Service approved nearly 50,000 requests from law enforcement agencies last year to monitor mail.

Read more: How the Postal Service is helping monitor snail mail.