On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:33:25 +0100, Matt put finger to keyboard and
typed:

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:25:38 +0100, Mark Goodge
wrote:

Is the recipient address definitely coded into the barcode? It isn't
on the similar SmartStamp product which has been available to
businesses for a while.

How do you *know* it isn't ?

Because you can print SmartStamps without an address, if you want to.

Also, the Royal mail website has a page giving details of SmartStamps,
and one of the items is about the barcode. It says about the barcode
that:

All information in the postage mark is encoded into a barcode
which read by Royal Mail sorting technology to prevent the
posting of fraudulent or duplicate items.

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...3&catId=600023

It doesn't mention anything about the address also being in the code.

OK, so that doesn't prove that it isn't encoded if you do print them
with an address label, but I'd be very surprised if it was.

Mark
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