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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1130862272.603676.174030@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Ian   
   Bailey  writes   
      
   >banana wrote:   
   >> In article <1130856751.053723.239350@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Jay   
   >>  writes   
   >> >   
   >> >banana wrote:   
   >> >> In article , banana > >> HIS.borve.demon.co.uk> writes   
      
      
      
   >> >> Responses from those with something to say - e.g. if you work for the   
   >> >> 'Royal Mail' - would be very welcome.   
   >> >   
   >> >My old fella works for the P.O.   
   >> >There are no devices. They scan a barcode at each post box, into a hand   
   >> >held device. This lets the gaffers know when and which boxes are empty.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks for this. Also it lets them know what time the worker has visited   
   >> the box. Are you saying there's only a printed barcode in the box...no   
   >> electronic tag of any kind?   
   >>   
   >> Why is there so much interference on car radios close to business boxes?   
   >   
   >My closest post box is visible through my front window I have no   
   >interference on either radio TV or wifi signals. I've been there   
   >several times when postie opened the box. The letters are held in a   
   >wire mesh cage. He puts them in his sack and closes the door.   
      
   Maybe it's one in a country wall, the sort that birds sometimes nest in?   
   But when collecting mail from ordinary free-standing cylindrical   
   cast-iron boxes, posties use a handheld electronic device. I am open to   
   the idea that this is simply a barcode reader. I am also open to the   
   idea that there is at least an RFID circuit together with the barcode   
   inside the box. (Barcodes are very easy to print). I assure you,   
   however, that there is electronic logging of the visit, involving the   
   pointing of a handheld device at what's behind the door.   
      
   If the box were an 'ordinary' one, you could not avoid noticing this.   
      
   >I feel like I'm on one of the video bits of the Teletubbies - why don't   
   >you know this?   
      
   Why should I know what you can see from your window, what you feel like,   
   or what TV programmes you watch? :-)   
      
   >What electronics were you expecting?   
      
   See above.   
      
   As for radio interference, I only know about such interference in the   
   vicinity of a number of business postboxes - as I said, the ones that   
   only take franked mail. I have had reports from several. Obviously I   
   haven't had reports from all of them...   
      
   --   
   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)   
      
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