Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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No This Is Not A Summons, Sir

Postal service for fugitives, indecisive people and the homeless
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A service delivering the post to you wherever you are - no need to agree a place and time. The postie finds you with GPS, mobile phone signal and hunting instincts.

Is it just me, or does anyone else like the idea of ordering a package for same day delivery and then driving like something out of The Italian Job to evade the courier?

oscil8, Jan 24 2003

This idea is a corollary of My Own Postal Code http://www.halfbake...Own_20Postal_20Code
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       Semi - baked in Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49."
snarfyguy, Jan 24 2003
  

       Kind of baked with couriers... I once needed a new mobile phone to be delivered, but was away from home for a week, out in the middle of the street all day every day...   

       They sorted it out so the courier fella pulled up to me in the middle of the street, clicked in a newly charged up battery and I was on my way... now THAT is service.
Seaneeboy, Jan 24 2003
  

       Re Pynchon, If customers had to carry trash cans around with them then I could see the connection.
oscil8, Jan 24 2003
  

       My recollection of the book does not include users of the secret postal service having to carry around trash cans with them, so I don't really get what you mean.
snarfyguy, Jan 24 2003
  
      
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