Re: "Secret" Postal Device stolen

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At 05:18 AM 2/1/97 GMT, Rob wrote:
>On 31 Jan 1997 15:26:16 -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
>
>>from http://www.herald.com/dade/digdocs/021949.htm
>>Postal Service offers $25,000 reward for stolen . . . something
>

Mail Storage Box keys?

DCF
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>>>Postal Service offers $25,000 reward for stolen . . . something

I got the impression the author was struggling very hard not to say
	"I swear I'm not making this up"
"But I can't say that - it's Dave Barry's line"  :-)

At 09:39 AM 2/1/97 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>Mail Storage Box keys?

I was also guessing keys - truck keys are a less subtle target than
box storage keys, and telling every thug in the country that 
mail trucks are an easy target, just take the keys from the carrier,
seems almost worth sounding really stupid in public to avoid.
They did say that it wasn't something they carried in their pockets,
but do mail carriers hang their keys on their belts?
My wife's guess was that they didn't want to admit they carry Mace
or equivalent, though everybody knows it.

I also enjoyed the description of one of the weapons as a
"steering wheel locking device" 
	"The Club - Police recommend it!"





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Bill Stewart wrote:
 
> >>>Postal Service offers $25,000 reward for stolen . . . something
 
> I was also guessing keys - truck keys are a less subtle target than
> box storage keys, and telling every thug in the country that
> mail trucks are an easy target, just take the keys from the carrier,
> seems almost worth sounding really stupid in public to avoid.
> They did say that it wasn't something they carried in their pockets,
> but do mail carriers hang their keys on their belts?

  Mail carriers in some areas carry keys for buildings with security
doors (sometimes Master keys).
  Or perhaps they've taken over the CIA's crack distribution route.

  Is anyone on the list willing to 'knock off' a couple of mail
carriers and get back to us with a definitive answer on this?
 (Doesn't this kind of thing fall under the moderator's job
description?)

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