As usual..a paranoid, uninformed, forum member that knows nothing...but believes he does...gives out false information based on no facts at all and just his opinion...a stupid one at that. And he go's ahead and shares this with the forum and decides to misinform the masses. The truth is if you got a letter from a vendor....it was the actual vendor!!! I wish this was not true, but it is. Many vendors kept addresses. This is a fact. They thought at some point they would "need" these addresses for a situation JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED. And they knew that if something like this happened..then they could not get in trouble for doing it...as the site is closes..and they assumed that their customers would be happy to still have the connect...and to be fair...some are. And clearly...some are not. Realize that these vendors over nite lost their business...and MANY of them were not prepared to lose there income over nite. And that is actually surprising to me...well I guess I should not say surprised, I should say I was shocked that so many vendors were living month to month. And were broke. If you pay attention to the forums..you can see a lot of vendors claiming that they lost all or part of their money on Silk road. And they do not even have a couple BTC to get a new account at one of the other sites. And being desperate and being not very smart, they decided to mail out cards or letters to their customers to let them know where they were so they could sell their goods. And even one of the guys that was writing about this happening was actually happy to get the card!!!! Again I think that person is not looking at the big picture and was just happy to have his connect back so he was not thinking. If he was ...then he would realize that the vendor broke every rule keeping his address and that is a big rule and a huge security risk for the buyer. I understand "why" the vendor did it. I get it....but I also think it was/is totally stupid to do it. And that if I were to get a card from my vendor I would be totally pissed and I would never buy from that vendor again. I would also expose them in the forums and explain why it is a big deal the vendor did it and even if that vendor was "GREAT"....you should stay as far away as you can from them. Any vendor that saved addresses and/or sends you something to let you know where they are is a total idiot and a piece of shit liar.