studio150
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An unnecessary gimmick or the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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[Technology] New Royal Mail Bar-Coded Stamps
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clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,309
Not sure barcodes are a gimmick, I'm just surprised it's taken them this long to catch up.
I print all my postage at home - with barcode.
As much as I miss the old school charm of a post office with their pens on chains and arguments at the money exchange counter it's much easier.
jonny.rainbow
Well-known member
- Oct 29, 2005
- 6,607
I can travel all over the world but always stay in one corner. What am I?
A barcode.
A barcode.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Get using your old ones!
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...oyal Mail is shaking up,a letter and use them.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...oyal Mail is shaking up,a letter and use them.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,303
bit gimmicky. not convinced there is much in the way of security and easily reproduced code can provide, tracability so you know post facto there were some fakes. might help with items getting lost, know the last place in the system they were, requires people to scan their stamps before sending.
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Frankly I don't give a damn
Oooh I know! I know! ....... Little Jack Horner.
They are huge. Just makes writing postcards even more difficult.
Postcards - thing of the past I hear you all say. Surprisingly not, my local bookshop have sold about 1,000 in the last 18 months (I know, because they ordered some more from me).
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,161
Is it your checked-in luggage at Heathrow airport?
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Hmmm those postards though, are they for writing on and then sending? or being purchased by collectors. There are a lot of Deltiologists out there, (postcard collectors to you and me).
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
Word to the wise. Trotted to my local Post Office last week to swap mine. 'Sorry mate' with a cheery smile. You can only swap them at the Royal Mail. 
GT49er
Well-known member
They're shite. A book of stamps used to fit in nicely in that little wallet that held your raicard, bus pass, driving licence and bank card etc.. Now it doesn't - so gets dog-eared somewhere else in your pockets or is left lying around so that when you want it you can't find it. Bollocks.
Should nave kept the size the same and stuck the squiggly thing in the corner (if they had to have the squiggly thing in the first place).