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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   I'd be grateful for info as to what electronic gadgetry is installed in   
   UK postboxes.   
      
   How are visits by Royal Mail workers to empty the boxes logged   
   electronically?   
      
   Presumably the vans are all satellite-tracked. But what gizmo do the   
   workers use to 'shake hands' with the gadgetry in the box?   
      
   And what about 'business postboxes' - the ones for franked mail only?   
   Just try using your car radio near one. You probably won't be able to,   
   because of the electromagnetic interference.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)