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Default OT. New online postage stamps?


"Brian Morrison" wrote in message
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Grunff wrote:
Guy King wrote:

Seems reasonable. After all, the whole point of using unique barcodes

is
so you can't reproduce them fraudulently. Printing it again should be
easy.


With it being browser based, you can print it as many times as you like.
The anti-fraud system will have to kick in when two identically-coded
packages are scanned through the system.



I suspect that it will involve some sort of Java applet that will only
print what it is allowed to, the browser's direct printing ability will
have to be suspended for this to work.


Why? It doesn't matter if you print 100 copies. Only one parcel with that
bar code will get through the PO system.