This is actually a fantastic idea. Is An Post the first postal service worldwide to use this technology?
3.8 quadrillion unique codes, assuming all capital letters, and not having both letter I and J and that they can have the same letter twice.
€2 a stamp. There must be very little people sending Christmas cards now. We used to send dozens of them, it’s a WhatsApp now
Finally I can post my form that I have been sitting on for over a month.
Do you have to write it out in square format (as image) or can it be linear (as people normally write)??
Edit: never mind, I enlarged the image.
Has to be written in the format of the image. That will have a failure rate.
> A digital stamp is €2 and a normal stamp is €1.25. The reason you are paying the extra is for the value added of getting a delivery notification upon delivery of your item
Do many in Ireland sell things from their home like those etsy shops or is the shipping too expensive?
What happens if you accidentally reuse a code? Return to sender?
€2 for essentially registered post seems quite good.
Why don’t they make it cheaper? I don’t buy their reasoning for it being more expensive.
The post office is such an effort as well. I would happily pay an extra 75 cent to not have to deal with queuing for 40 minutes. The only time I and seemingly every other working person can go is during their lunch break and they’ll always be down to one counter open because the second teller is also on lunch at that time. Maybe I’m asking for too much but shifts could be better arranged so that lunch time is covered as it’s the busiest time. Just a thought. Until then my impatient self will happily use the digital service.
I feel like “Dyou want a digital stamp?” is a line to say in the schoolyard before jumping on somebody’s fingers.
It is a 60% increase over the cost of a normal stamp. Even with the delivery confirmation, it is a bit steep. €1.50 would have been better. Another case of a good idea with a built-in reason not to use it.
It should be CHEAPER than a physical stamp! with the option of tracking for extra!
Better than trying to draw a QR code I guess.
Be grand till Yer standing behind some Auld fella in the post office that can’t turn the alarm off his phone whilst trying to get his digital code to write down writing the letters corner to corner with his Parkinson’s. Lick it, stick it, flick it into the box
As it happened, I had a card to post the other day, so I tried this. I posted on Wednesday evening, intending for delivery today. I have just received a message saying that it was delivered.
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This is actually a fantastic idea. Is An Post the first postal service worldwide to use this technology?
3.8 quadrillion unique codes, assuming all capital letters, and not having both letter I and J and that they can have the same letter twice.
€2 a stamp. There must be very little people sending Christmas cards now. We used to send dozens of them, it’s a WhatsApp now
Finally I can post my form that I have been sitting on for over a month.
Do you have to write it out in square format (as image) or can it be linear (as people normally write)??
Edit: never mind, I enlarged the image.
Has to be written in the format of the image. That will have a failure rate.
> A digital stamp is €2 and a normal stamp is €1.25. The reason you are paying the extra is for the value added of getting a delivery notification upon delivery of your item
Do many in Ireland sell things from their home like those etsy shops or is the shipping too expensive?
What happens if you accidentally reuse a code? Return to sender?
€2 for essentially registered post seems quite good.
Why don’t they make it cheaper? I don’t buy their reasoning for it being more expensive.
The post office is such an effort as well. I would happily pay an extra 75 cent to not have to deal with queuing for 40 minutes. The only time I and seemingly every other working person can go is during their lunch break and they’ll always be down to one counter open because the second teller is also on lunch at that time. Maybe I’m asking for too much but shifts could be better arranged so that lunch time is covered as it’s the busiest time. Just a thought. Until then my impatient self will happily use the digital service.
I feel like “Dyou want a digital stamp?” is a line to say in the schoolyard before jumping on somebody’s fingers.
It is a 60% increase over the cost of a normal stamp. Even with the delivery confirmation, it is a bit steep. €1.50 would have been better. Another case of a good idea with a built-in reason not to use it.
It should be CHEAPER than a physical stamp! with the option of tracking for extra!
Better than trying to draw a QR code I guess.
Be grand till Yer standing behind some Auld fella in the post office that can’t turn the alarm off his phone whilst trying to get his digital code to write down writing the letters corner to corner with his Parkinson’s. Lick it, stick it, flick it into the box
As it happened, I had a card to post the other day, so I tried this. I posted on Wednesday evening, intending for delivery today. I have just received a message saying that it was delivered.