XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   If you send something by 'Royal' Mail recorded delivery, it will be   
   logged at various points during its journey, using a barcode.   
      
   You can also phone up to check whether it's arrived.   
      
   You get a recorded message saying they should be able to tell you within   
   FIVE DAYS of the day you sent it.   
      
   The country's falling apart, isn't it?   
      
   What's it going to be like next year, or the year after?   
      
   (The debt, gambling, and drugs sectors are expanding though. Work that   
   one out!)   
      
   Soon they'll probably get rid of street postboxes altogether, and you'll   
   have to pay to have letters delivered to your door.   
      
   (Cue responses from idiots telling me I don't understand that it 'has   
   to' be like this).   
      
   --   
   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)