When I was nearly 13, an older friend sent me a letter with “This is a bomb!! Do not open!!” scrawled in teenage handwriting all over the envelope. This attracted the Royal Mail’s attention – it was during the IRA’s letter-bombing campaign – and my friend got a telling-off from school. But as far as I know, nobody at the time was calling for the postal service to be closed to stop real bombs being sent.
我快13歲的時候,有一位比我大的朋友寄來一封信,整個信封上用年輕人那種潦草的字跡寫著「信中有炸彈!千萬別打開!!」這封信引起了皇家郵政(Royal Mail)的注意——當時愛爾蘭共和軍(IRA)正在發動炸彈郵件襲擊行動——我那位朋友因此受到了學校的批評。但就我所知,那時沒有人要求關閉郵政服務以防止郵寄炸彈郵件。
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