Growing numbers of shops and other businesses are holding packages behind the counter for later collection.

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Of the four major nationwide carriers, T-Mobile also charges for blocking numbers under the same umbrella of parental control packages.

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In fact, a growing number of electronic devices and software packages contain identifying numbers to help them interact with each other.

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The Star Tribune has reported consumers receiving tracking numbers from the retailer even though UPS has no record of the packages.

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Assuming we read the numbers right, out of the million new people with DirecTV, only 90, 000 picked up HD packages.

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