I've read that in the big ITV competitions such as This Morning and Loose Women, where the prize might be a car or £80,000, and you can either text, phone or send in your name and phone number to that ubiquitous PO Box 7558 in Derby (where nearly ALL competition entries seem to have to go), all entries are changed into a similar random number and then the winner chosen from all those. Whether the MoS would be bothered to change all postal entries in that way is a moot point. Having said that, last year the Daily Express Big Monday crossword (with a prize of £1,000) added a phone-in method of entry, but I still won by sending in the grid in the usual way, so I haven't given up hope of winning the MoS! Shame it's become so uninteresting, though. Much better when Chris Feetenby set it.