Postal clerks kept records of dispatches, and postal stations maintained a staff of cantonal officers who guarded mail delivery routes.
The following year Burger King took "extra security precautions", when Stormtroopers from George Lucas Star Warss guarded the delivery of Star Wars toys to a Burger King in North Hollywood.
The two men, Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh, walked free from Ireland's Castlerea prison more than 10 years after they were convicted in the killing by the Irish Republican Army of an Irish policeman guarding a cash delivery van.
Few people here leave their homes after 5 p.m., and see soldiers and police officers only briefly after a major crime or when they are guarding the monthly delivery of government pension checks for retirees.
Mr. Thomas describes a London crawling with armed thieves on the prowl, their eyes set on jewelry stores and furriers, delivery trucks, lightly guarded warehouses and unwary errand boys carrying bags of cash to a nearby business on payday.
Near Zawiya detention centre, 30 miles along the coast from Tripoli, guards took delivery of a truck that was stopped heading west to Zuwara.
They all have their armies of guards, peons, delivery boys, ear-dewaxers and men who sit on stools in lifts pressing the buttons.
London Citizens has a meeting with Tesco on Wednesday, in its latest attempt to persuade the mega-retailer to extend the relatively generous wages that it pays its shopfloor staff to thousands of sub-contracted cleaners, security guards and delivery drivers.
These things look like the rubber and duct tape hand guards the delivery guys around Brooklyn tape to their scooter handlebars to keep themselves warm but they attach to your stroller instead!
They include Deliveroo, the food-delivery business that focuses on a smaller group of hip eateries and competes (fiercely) with the likes of Uber Eats and Amazon Restaurants among the newer guard of delivery startups, but also Just-Eat and others that have been around for years.
