On 21 Sep 2006 07:52:42 GMT, put finger to keyboard
and typed:

In uk.d-i-y Mark Goodge wrote:

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.

I'd be surprised if the Royal Mail sorting offices have instant online
communication country wide.

Why not? All it takes is an Internet connection at each office.

If you use the same SmartStamp for
posting items in several different places will they really catch it?

They don't need to catch it every time. They just need to catch it
enough times to make it not worth the risk.

Mark
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