"Brian Morrison" wrote in message
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A bloke on "Today" implied that they'd consider the postage to have
been
not paid on packages whose stamp barcode has previously been scanned.

So they've designed a broken system and then dropped the broken pieces
on the general public. I can't see how this is any better than a book of
stamps.

Not smart

Eh? It's the only way this sort of thing can sensibly be done. Or do you
have a better idea?

Yes, I can. Ensure that the same bar code cannot be printed more than
once by doing the printing from inside a custom application in Java or
possibly something that is downloaded and installed?

It's rather easy to capture what's sent to the printer and use that to
repeatedly print other copies. (eg by using a 'print to file' option - like
for postscript). Ie it isn't even slightly secure enough.

Hence the scanning at the RM end is the only sensible way this can be done.

clive