XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british, uk.tech.electronic-security   
   From: XSJCLSIAEMCA@spammotel.com   
      
   On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:14:56 GMT, "Diversity Isn't A Codeword"   
      
    mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...   
      
   >"banana"  wrote in message   
   >news:Tohcy+A7mzZDFwPv@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.   
   >   
   >they use special X rays to scan every piece of mail and record every letter   
   >everybody sends, it's all done by secret MI5 operatives, just ask Mike   
   >Corley.   
      
   That could mean the Royal Mail is in cahoots with MI5 *and*   
   the BBC because they spy on him through his TV set.   
      
   Is this a devious plot by organs of the state I ask myself?   
      
   --   
   "Turkey should join the EU 'because it is a European country'"   
   ...Jack Straw 2nd October 2005 in Luxembourg.   
   BBC: "only 22% of citizens across Europe want Turkey to join the EU"   
      
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