On 19 Sep 2006 06:39:11 -0700, put finger to
keyboard and typed:


Grunff wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I think this is rather cunning...actually.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5358436.stm


Well, it is and it isn't - we, and quite a few others, have been doing
online barcode generation for discount vouchers, gift vouchers etc. for
a good few years now. Several of the parcel service companies have also
been using it.

So the technology is not at all new, the only new thing is applying it
to Royal Mail post.


And even that's not new. They've been doing "Smart Stamps" for a while.

SmartStamps is an offline, software-based service that's essentially a
franking machine without the machine, if you get my drift - it does
what franking machines do (as well as having a few other nifty
functions such as adddress label printing and mail merge), but allows
you to use a computer and your own printer instead of needing separate
hardware. This new service is online and web-based, so you don't need
any additional software in order to use it.

It's effectively SmartStamps Lite - it's the single envelope option
from SmartStamps running standalone in a hosted environment.

Mark
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