For Chainmailmaiden, and other interested parties

[king_pellinor]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/07/letter_bombs/

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[rustica.livejournal.com]

I remember once reading something about criteria the FBI have for spotting likely letter bombs. Like, they are usually addressed to a position (eg "Chief of Police") instead of a named individual, they have no return address, they are usually exceedingly well wrapped and often have too many stamps on them. There were other criteria too, which I can't remember, but there's probably a list on the internet somewhere....

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's one at the other end of the link I posted :-D

[chainmailmaiden]

Interesting article. It's nice to know that the x-ray device we have should detect all things dodgy and that stuff isn't likely to go off just by being handled.