Forwarding bank cards in the post.

Someone on radio recently recalled as a young fella being shown a steam-filled room wherein a large group of Royal Mail employees were busily steaming open envelopes, presumably looking for wrongdoing of some kind or other. Maybe it was the privatisation of Royal Mail which reminded him of that old incident (he didn't explain).

It certainly has occurred to me that it will be more convenient for the government if they can gag the private mail company and prevent them from even saying they've been gagged, something which might be slightly more difficult to do to a crown corporation.

I don't receive much mail apart from things which are obviously bills, but two private letters recently arrived slightly damp even though it hadn't been raining.

Odd.