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I hear he expressed a wish to be buried in the Lake District.

Yep, done that. First time it happened I changed the head, thinking it was busted. Luckily I hadn't thrown it out, lobbing it into the growing collection of heads to be re-coiled, so when the penny dropped it was still there and not in the bin.

It seems they were pretty dire for reliability and users had to carry lots of spares for long trips.

I don't get it. Why not sell the business as a going concern if it's all that successful?

Arghhhhhhh -- and from that particular earworm comes another one - Toto, Africa.
Damn it.
Oddly, I couldn't stand it in the 80s, but now I can listen to it without wanting to break something.

A mate once worked for the PO and in the sorting office was discovered a bag of mail nearly 20 years old, stuffed behind a partition - all the registered letters had been opened and rifled through, pity for those folk who never got the money they were perhaps depending on at the time. The PO, to give them their due, did try to track the addressees and compensate them and certainly delivered (two decades late) the ordinary mail in the bag.

I must say though; I've found the PO Investigations Dept to be on the ball when I've ever had an issue with the post - they're absolutely shet hot at rooting out crooked postmen, but the problem is there are so many coming and going these days and the PO is like a magnet for crooks - and getting worse. The POID can't be everywhere at once.

To the OP: get a couple of friends from outside the area to send you some really nasty e-juice, I mean absolutely shie stuff. Stuff that would make your hair curl if you vaped it. Just keep sending it back and forth until it disappears and then you'll know that somebody's had a nasty surprise.