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In this way, they claimed, the Russian informant could wirelessly store information in the rock where it was retrievable by the British agents in a 21st-century version of what is known as a 'dead-letter drop'.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Collins 2012

In this way, they claimed, the Russian informant could wirelessly store information in the rock where it was retrievable by the British agents in a 21st-century version of what is known as a 'dead-letter drop'.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Collins 2012

Barry Newman/The Wall Street Journal A dead-letter office hamper But then came an image too faint for him.

Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security for Post Office's Scribble Specialists Barry Newman 2011

It would be nice if the existing Ugandan law (dead-letter, but still) that criminalizes homosexuality was removed.

An Open Letter to Ms. Windsor Hal Duncan 2010

We have invested very much in dead-letter boxes, invisible ink, nano-cameras and other equipments for stealing of secrets.

Dr Gerry Mander, the therapist the stars trust 2011

She was Naldo's trained housekeeper, making sure he did not slip out to fill some dead-letter box, or meet a contact.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

Titus's poems are wintry catalogs of the ruined and missing -- a former automotive plant, a dead-letter office, "Instructions from the Narwhal," patron saints of the most obscure things imaginable ( "the larvae in its wooden chamber"; "the wheelchair's rusty pedal"), and several motels.

Small Press Poetry: A Summer Reading List 2010

What if she had been waiting all this time and the email to Sarah was just sitting in some cyber dead-letter office.

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010

You cannot argue for what is a fairly strict originalist version of Commerce Clause power, long since dead-letter, and pretend you are analyzing under modern doctrine.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Obamacare Constitutional? 2009

I would have had them leave things as they were, that is continue on in the “unconstitutional” state of having only a dead-letter blasphemy law, or adopt the law they did but with a maximum penalty of a farthing or whatever is the most minimal coin of therealm.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blasphemy Made a Crime in Ireland: 2009