BBC News – Postal workers to receive missing people alerts

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Royal Mail is to join forces with the charity Missing People by distributing alerts with information on vulnerable people to its 124,000 postal workers. Descriptions and photographs of missing children and adults will go to hand-held scanners which are usually used to track and sign for deliveries. Alerts will be sent on a geographical and, […]

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Re: BBC News – Postal workers to receive missing people alerts

The most the PDA the postman carries can do is nothing more than basic text messaging besides uploading scans from bar codes. They are the size of bricks

Royal Mail has not even got a server big enough to handle current data. That is why the majority of Amazon packets are delivered by Yodel and self employed couriers.