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Former President Jimmy Carter revealed in an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press that he is concerned with the power the NSA has to monitor the American public.

Considering the NSA’s history of snooping, prying, and mass surveillance of metadata on the American public, they might be what saves the US Postal Service from extinction.

The former American president is aware his emails could be monitored by US intelligence agencies excessively “liberalized” under President Obama so he prefers to send letters via ‘snail mail’ to ensure the privacy of correspondence.

In an interview with the NBC TV channel to discuss the publication of his new book, ‘A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power’, 89-year-old Jimmy Carter said he does not trust electronic communications because they could be monitored.

“You know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” Carter told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

“When I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it,” continued Carter in the interview aired yesterday.

“Old fashioned snail mail,” Andrea Mitchell commented.

“Yeah. Because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored,” the 39th American president confessed.

Last June, Jimmy Carter said in an interview with CNN that “the invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far.”

In July, he expressed support for Edward Snowden, saying that “America has no functioning democracy at this moment”.

Jimmy Carter accused the NSA and other US intelligence agencies of abusing the very idea of ensuring homeland security through gathering intelligence.

“That has been extremely liberalized and, I think, abused by our own intelligence agencies,” Carter said.