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Posted by hummingbird on November 1, 2005, 12:22 pm
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mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
>Stephen Glynn wrote:
>
>> Diversity Isn't A Codeword wrote:
>> >
>> >>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.
>
>Indeed. I also recall the story of J B Morton ('Beachcomber') who
>would attract a crowd by walking up to a postbox and shouting into the
>letter slot 'It's safe to come out now!'
Was it David Blunkett inside the box I wonder? ;-)
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"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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