"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message Bydao.10092$UD.6420@hurricane, at 17:19:44 on Mon, 16 Aug
2010, Buddenbrooks remarked:
How does 'To stop the bloody IRA from putting bombs in them' sound?

If they can see what is in the box they can decide if special action is
needed without disturbing the package.

Not if it has a pile of other letters on top of it.
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It is a case of either that or no postbox at all. Organizations that
feel they are at risk from incoming mail have x-ray machines. As for your
suggestion, true but it would be suspicious if someone came and posted
large number of items, there would be rare cause to do so.

In any case letter bombs were never true, they were small parcels and the
post boxes have a limited aperture.