I think they are unique serial numbers, so fully traceable to the on-line purchase. The serial number is 'live' until scanned by the PO where upon that code is used up. so in answer to the earlier Q you could print several, but only the first one scanned would work.
I thought that quite generous for a print on demand service. When I use my franking machine, the mail has to be in the post box the same day.
Colin Bignell
Nothing. However, they will all direct the mail to the same destination address and only the first one into the system will be accepted as paid.
Colin Bignell
Actually, 'print your own postage' generally says that the thing has to be in the post by the end of the next working day, in my experience.
in round figures - CCs are a bit less than one percent, DCs 25-30 pence
so you can see why
There must be millions of combinations of bar code. Everything has one, from a Mars bar to saw bench.
Anyone know how many possible combinations there are? 12 or 13 digits?
Missed that. I don't read *everything*.
Ah, OK.
999 999 999 999 +1 or 9 999 999 999 999 + 1. (Or am I missing something?)
Royal Mail stamps use an IEC 16022 data matrix (2D barcode), which stores vastly more than a (linear) barcode, and can include error correction.
You mean apart from the 6 or 7 different standards ?
I bought one yesterday Fri 28/11 and it has to be posted by 2/12 which is Tuesday which is plenty time imho.I make that by the end of 2 working days Mon and Tuesday
Retail goods in the EU use the EAN-13 code - 12 digits plus a check digit. The start of the code identifies the manufacturer and the end is free for that manufacturer to use for individual goods. It is simple to register online for a nine-digit manufacturer code - I have one - which gives you
1000 possible products. Larger manufacturers can apply for shorter manufacturer codes and a correspondingly larger number of goods, but those are not issued automatically.Colin Bignell.
Sounds like great idea. Although I've used L-Mail on occasion; mailing maybe three to five items per year in that fashion, to all parts of the world.
But. Geez. 3 days! Our Canada Post says it takes 3 to 5 'business days' to move and deliver ordinary mail. And they don't 'guarantee' that! Cost 59 cents (31p) now I think.
Consequently if an item is mailed to me from a point 20 kilometres away, on say a Thursday before a long (Bank holiday) weekend; the holiday usually being held on the Monday ...............
Friday will be Day 1. And four more business days wil be the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the following week. And this is not for the 1400 miles from this province to say Toronto or the 4000 plus miles to Vancouver; it's for mailing time from the next city/town!
So it takes a week!
Glad your UK mail service is still so good; my grandfather worked with GPO. During part of his career, in the 1930s etc. he used to sort mail on the night trains to and from Scotland. I have his retirement gold watch from 1937. He was called back to work during WWII.
Cheers.
We no longer have night mails crossing the border Direct debits replaced the postal order The rich use email and the poor use text The corner shop's closed and Woolies is next
(with apologies to WH Auden)
Owain
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