Electronics

banana · Guest

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.

--
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)

Diversity Isn't A Codewor · Guest

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.

joeh · Guest

Our local one has its own midget MI5 agaent inside, who takes X-ray
photocopies of each letter as it drops through the slot.

Seriously though, I've seen inside the postbox and there's no gadgetry
inside, just a wire cage that contains the post till the postman
collects it.

hummingbird · Guest

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"

Stephen Glynn · Guest

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

Jay · Guest

He is sure of no devices, just called him. Just the barcode.
Gonna find out about the business boxes for you.

banana · Guest

I've counted 11 replies so far, all of them content-free as far as the
topic goes. I wonder how many of the authors even knew there was any
electronics inside postboxes? (Well you know now, because I've just told
you. Find the information hard to deal with? Well wait around until a
postie opens the door and collects the letters). Or how many would have
sufficient interest to try to use a radio in proximity to one of the
'business postboxes'?

Responses from those with something to say - e.g. if you work for the
'Royal Mail' - would be very welcome.

--
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)

Jay · Guest

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.

Don't know anything about mysterious airwaves and MI5 operatives
masterbating on video outside.

banana · Guest

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?

--
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)

banana · Guest

ROFLMFAO!

If you're interested, using lamp-posts for wireless communications
'meshes' has been on the cards for some time:

<http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=rfid+lamp-posts+uk+mesh>

Mustn't grumble, eh? Wouldn't want shit-for-brains cretins to call us
'terrorists'. Only baby-eaters grumble, right? Only subway-gassers think
our lovely rulers could possibly be up to no good, right?

--
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)

Ian Bailey · Guest

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.

I feel like I'm on one of the video bits of the Teletubbies - why don't
you know this? What electronics were you expecting?

Ian

Guest

Not enough elbow-room.

hummingbird · Guest

Anybody sane would keep his stash in a secret hideout.
I can't say about Mike Corley ;-)

--
"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"

PeterCB · Guest

Guest

Even worse - they're in cahoots with Cahoots to track his online
banking!

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