Here lads this might sound like a stupid question but I’m genuinely confused and hope someone will help me out. Why on earth do they have an expiry date? I know they’re more expensive but the handiness of them and the delivery notification makes up for that in my book but this expiry date is putting me right of ever using them again
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Suppose they figure that if you’re buying a digital stamp in the first place (and not going to a shop/post office for a physical one), then you are going to be using it fairly immediately?
Because otherwise they would have to maintain support for that stamp indefinitely.
Because stamps are useable as currency. And having large amounts that increase in value would mean the digital stamps could be used as some sort of centralised digital currency backed by the Irish post office completely separate from the usual rules and rest of the banking industry.
This unfettered parallel currency would compete with the euro and completely destroy the EUs ability to regulate and impose rules on the Irish economy.
When this happens every state in the EU will forge the same path using the same digital stamp loophole or DSL, eventually leading to the breakup of the EU as we know it.
Then what? Anarchy? War? The complete collapse of society?
And for what? Unexpirable digital stamps. That were only created in the first place for your convenience.
I hope you are happy at the destruction you have wrought. Because by even imagining it and speaking it out loud you have led us down this path. There is no turning back.
Or it’s some technical computer reason or something.
Another stupid question but how do they work? Do you put a reference number on the envelope?