More CDs lost in the post

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:29:14 +0000


On 23 Jan 2008, at 22:21, Roland Perry wrote:
>
> I recently had to send a passport in for renewal (enclosing the old  
> one along with the application). It makes me very sad that the Post  
> Office recommends that you need to send such a thing by Special  
> Delivery, just to make sure it's not nicked within their system.

Running the entire postal system securely is unreasonable, given most  
of the material doesn't justify it.  There's no evidence the situation  
is any worse than it used to be, as historically large portions of the  
population didn't receive mail that was valuable.

ian