XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british, uk.tech.electronic-security   
   From: stephen.glynn@ntlworld.com   
      
   Diversity Isn't A Codeword wrote:   
   > "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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Does anyone remember the old 'Candid Camera' joke years ago when they   
   had the talking postbox?   
      
   They had a microphone and loudspeaker rigged up inside it and would   
   attempt to engage passers-by in conversation.   When they found someone   
   who was prepared to talk to the postbox (thus earning rather strange   
   looks from other people) they'd try to pursuade him to get someone else   
   to talk to it and, if he did, would stop talking when he fetched them.   
      
   Steve   
      
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