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BBC Faces Bomb Scare Bill

 
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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:04 pm    Post subject: BBC Faces Bomb Scare Bill Reply with quote

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The BBC is to get a bill for £5,000 from the police and crime commissioner for Greater Manchester for sending a suspicious package through the post from Belfast to Manchester. which ''caused severe disruption to the emergency services'' according to the commissioner,Terry Lloyd. The package was a camera in a bottle and when postal workers in Salford spotted it they called police.The package was sent by Royal Mail not internal post.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23727511

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It appears that it went by normal Royal Mail , rather than the BBC Internal Post.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I simply do not understand this

If the item sent was suitable for Royal Mail to carry which it appears it was in this case why should the BBC and us as licence payers end up with a bill as a result of the actions of some paranoid postal worker - if that person was worried then it's fair enough for him to report it but not for the police to bill the sender for sending an item which turned out to be completely legitimate Rolling Eyes
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Helen May



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm glad you thought it odd, I thought it was just me!

It's like saying if you or I sent something that they thought suspicious and wasn't we too would get the bill......... There has to be more to this that we aren't being told.

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