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Recently I bought a new mailbox: 99,9% copper, anti-something-or-other paint, and a silver bugle ornament on the front.

Being a sceptic, I didn't expect what happened, but I have to believe my own senses:

My bills have dropped with approximately 10%, the letters from my creditors have changed from ugly threats to reasonable suggestions, and my wealthy great aunt is sending postcards with invitations to tea. Also, while I used to find the loads of advertising leaflets a nuisance, these are now an aesthetically pleasing experience. 

The vendor suggest to add a lithium stand with teflon fittings, to improve my mail even more -- and I think I'll go for it.

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Re: Remarkable improvement

im tempted to do the same as the postal service is useless here. Upgrading my mailbox may give it a greater sense of timing and immediacy... Smile

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You can not be experience any differences, its all snake oil, and you cant prove it.

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Re: Remarkable improvement

will work much better when you have a few dozen of these in your garden


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You need to purchase a separate piece of land that's next to your current plot where you can remount the mailbox with a separate grounding rod. If you do this then your mail will be much cleaner.

Not that it affects the letter inside the envelope of course.

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Re: Remarkable improvement
Fahnsen:

Recently I bought a new mailbox: 99,9% copper, anti-something-or-other paint, and a silver bugle ornament on the front.


Being a sceptic, I didn't expect what happened, but I have to believe my own senses:


My bills have dropped with approximately 10%, the letters from my creditors have changed from ugly threats to reasonable suggestions, and my wealthy great aunt is sending postcards with invitations to tea. Also, while I used to find the loads of advertising leaflets a nuisance, these are now an aesthetically pleasing experience. 


The vendor suggest to add a lithium stand with teflon fittings, to improve my mail even more -- and I think I'll go for it.



You really need to go digital and not analouge , you will see a vast increase in speed and dynamics but be sure to specify the filter as this will stop the reciept of cold meat with your mail , at no extra charge.


Of course you can always disable this option when you are peckish


 

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Fahnsen:

Recently I bought a new mailbox: 99,9% copper, anti-something-or-other paint, and a silver bugle ornament on the front.

Being a sceptic, I didn't expect what happened, but I have to believe my own senses:

My bills have dropped with approximately 10%, the letters from my creditors have changed from ugly threats to reasonable suggestions, and my wealthy great aunt is sending postcards with invitations to tea. Also, while I used to find the loads of advertising leaflets a nuisance, these are now an aesthetically pleasing experience. 

The vendor suggest to add a lithium stand with teflon fittings, to improve my mail even more -- and I think I'll go for it.

You'll find they are old hat and have been replaced by a wireless streaming type of mail these days using an offboard Proxy Server.

 

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Hi,

Doesn't matter what you do - it's all gonna get there coz it's all just 1's and 0's, a couple of A, E, I, O and U's, some L, C, D's and X's.

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

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Unfortunately the area I live in will not be switched to mailboxes until 2012 and we have to get by with letterboxes for the time being. However, although the intial outlay was a bit expensive I found that getting a home delivery engineer to set the letterbox up using a papyrus calibration disk and mail pressure meter has transformed the correspondence I receive. Best of all I receive birthday cards every week with a full range of legible handwriting, money and gift vouchers.


Is the lithium stand with teflon coating backwards compatible with letterboxes?

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Stroll DMc:

Unfortunately the area I live in will not be switched to mailboxes until 2012 and we have to get by with letterboxes for the time being. However, although the intial outlay was a bit expensive I found that getting a home delivery engineer to set the letterbox up using a papyrus calibration disk and mail pressure meter has transformed the correspondence I receive. Best of all I receive birthday cards every week with a full range of legible handwriting, money and gift vouchers.

Is the lithium stand with teflon coating backwards compatible with letterboxes?

Yes and it has a pleasing timbre when you tap it with a hammer.

 

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I take it, with you new mailbox having all that copper around it, that it must be the KI version? Wink

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All you need to do now is illuminate it and wire it up with an audiophile quality, triple screened, hi-fi grade, platinum plated, cryo-genically treated and de-magnetized mains lead, that should make sure the postman doesn't red card you when you have stopped in all day camped by the side of the mailbox for a special delivery that was supposed to be guaranteed before 1.00pm but actually never arrived because the postman didn't even knock on your door because he was 2 hours late and needed to get home early for some reason so just put the red card through cos if he actually knocked and you answered that would mean him being 3 minutes later home and that just won't do will it. (True story about staying in till 1.00)

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You guys scare me!!!

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I just fitted one of these to my letterbox.  Brown envelopes?  Thing of the past.Geeked