From: Bovine Remailer <haystack@holy.cow.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 08:55:42 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Someone using the Huge Cajones mailer wrote:

   David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> writes:

   > USPS uses key locks seemingly designed by Ben Franklin himself.
   > Look at them someday. FedEx boxes used to have Simplex 926
   > 5 pushbutton ""locks"" if you stretch the point.

Still did last I checked.

   Don't let the old-fashioned look deceive you.  Most mail storage boxes
   use lever tumbler locks (similar to what's used in safe deposit
   vaults, though obviously the mailbox locks have a flimsier plug).

How is that obvious?  Safe deposit locks generally aren't designed to
be hard to open, just hard to open without damage.  There's always
either a guard or a locked vault door protecting the locks.
Mailboxes, on the other hand, generally aren't kept under guard or in
vaults.