On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:32:15 +0100, The Natural Philosopher 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.


h - definitely i didn't mean the technology was cunning, just that they
can now sell stamps for **** all overhead..

Not entirely zero overhead, since it's increasing the number of items
in the system that need to have the barcode scanned and logged rather
than simply franking the stamp by a mechanical process. So there is a
significant IT overhead involved, although it's minimised by the fact
that this is an extension of the existing SmartStamp product rather
than an entirely new system.

Mark
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