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The Royal Mail has begun a trial scheme across East Anglia pinpointing the exact location of homes and businesses and plans to sell on the information to sat nav companies.

Postal workers are using handheld computers to record the exact location of homes and businesses.

But there are concerns that it is an infringement of privacy.
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i bet this is the start of the pegasus system for the rural deliveries.
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iamnotadoormat wrote:i bet this is the start of the pegasus system for the rural deliveries.
What do you mean start? Been used here since Pegasus came in :roll:
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Can't see personally how it's any more of an 'invasion of privacy' than was google's streetview project, or existing satnav systems.

A residential postcode already identifies a particular segment of a specific street; all the Royal Mail GPS scheme does is fine-tune that information :whistle