wonder if the government can read the postal letters sent by Indian Post, FedEx, UPS et al

Although I do not like it, I can understand the reasons and consider it a necessary evil. Not sure what prompted the government to take this step. India banned some Chinese telecom equipment makers a few weeks back and now this.
Isn't US giving special powers to the President to get the kill switch for the internet. or at least moving in that direction.
btw, US and UK already monitor the email traffic. So, this is not something new.

Folks, you are complicating things un-necessarily.
I feel that changing DST was a stupid thing to do and now since DoE has found that it has not saved much, imagine what would happen if we do not even change our business hours. I think that would ease up a few of the complications.
We may still have different timezones in a country but no daylight savings. So, you would still be going to work from 9 to 5. its just that in winter 5 would be darker in the night. yes, but more energy consumption you say ? but that was what was proven wrong..... right? ;) and yes, no one plays with your freaking clock. All the businesses are in sync.