For nearly 170 years postage stamps have been used to show that payment has been made to send a letter. Is this now considered inefficient? Does Royal Mail want to phase out stamps as a method of pre-payment for postal services?
All the Post Offices are now using sticky labels instead of stamps unless you ask for stamps to be used. The Post Offices are no longer supplied with stamps above £1 in value. Values up to £5 are available in complete sheets from Royal Mail. Royal Mail encourages its customers to buy postage online: print your own postage. Ebay online auction encourages users to print their own postage with a link to Royal Mail.
When asked about this Royal Mail said that they have no plans to stop using postage stamps.
But I wonder how long it will be before we have to buy booklets of self adhesive bar codes or pass our parcels under a laser recording vending machine whilst paying with a smart card.
What do you think?
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Postage stamps to go?
Sunday, March 8th, 2009British Design Classics stamps by Royal Mail
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Royal Mail has recently issued British Design Classics, a set of 10 stamps commemorating several very special creations that the British have given to the world. The tribute covers innovations like the mini car, the mini skirt, the Spitfire, Concorde, the Routemaster double decker bus, the K2 Telephone Kiosk, and the London Underground map. It also includes a few less iconic items such as Polypropylene chair, the anglepoise lamp and Penguine books.
