Print Your Own Stamps

[sbisson]

The Royal Mail's online stamp service has got a little easier (and cheaper).

Go online, buy some postage (which has to be used by the end of the next day), print out the resulting labels, stick them onto an envelope and post.

You can even use a credit card for less than £3.50's worth of postage...

Useful. And no need to subscribe to the old system.

Comments

[megadog.livejournal.com]

My local post-office counts as rural, as does the baker, the butcher/game-dealer, the greengrocer... they all have one fundamental problem that will contribute to their downfall.

They're not open when I'm available to shop. So I go to the supermarket which _does_ have early/late opening. Or I renew my car-tax online rather than doing it at the post-office.

For a post-office or shop, opening traditional-style 9-to-5 weekdays means that you're essentially limiting your customer-base to people who don't work. The elderly; the unemployed; stay-at-home parents. Such people don't generally fit into high-disposable-income demographic groups.

Far better for a shop/p.off to open 06:00-10:00 [to catch people on their way to work/the morning school-run] and 15:00-20:00 [to catch the second school-run and people coming home from work].

And small shops should open all-day saturday [when people have time to shop] rather than closing at 1PM like they do round here!