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

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

That was my thought too, yet the radio and TV seemed to think that the line to follow was the howls of protests from outraged philatelists, claiming that this is yet another nail in the coffin of the postage stamp (presumeably along with that other piece of modern technology, franking).

[twinfair.livejournal.com]

All the headlines I seemed to notice was the "howls of protest" that the Queen in not on the printout. Apparently these are not stamps and are classifies as online postage (even though the business equivalent, that has been around for some time, is actually called SmartStamp), and therefore do not need to have Her Majesty adorned all over it. Apparently, modern printers would not do the Queen justice (even though they apparently can handle the very intricate details for the electronic readers).

I find the whole issue rather amusing but just wonder at the management of the Royal Mail who could not foresee that this would upset the traditionalists. It makes no difference one way or the other, really, so would it have mattered if they HAD included the image and saved the headlines "Off with her head!"

But the Crozier did used to head up the Football Association - say no more!