Stamps!

[jamesc]

Interesting new service from the Royal Mail has come to my attention. Have a look at this:

www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?catId=3800007&mediaId=3800008

"Pie & Piston" stamps?

[sadako]

America has been running a similar service. The people at The Smoking Gun managed to send a letter with a stamp that had a picture of the unabomber on it.

[simpo two]

'...great value, 20 First Class Smilers™ cost just £14.95 including delivery.'

75p each!!

[Don]

simpo two said:

'...great value, 20 First Class Smilers™ cost just £14.95 including delivery.' 75p each!!

Still a "good fun" thing to do with your Christmas cards or post cards or something...

[Plotloss]

I sent them to 'er indoors as she doesnt do the volume to justify franking as yet. I thought they would be a good way of getting the logo into a prominent position but at 75p a stamp its a non starter.

[Lois]

How about this turning up on your post!

[miniman]

Plotloss said:

I sent them to 'er indoors as she doesnt do the volume to justify franking as yet. I thought they would be a good way of getting the logo into a prominent position but at 75p a stamp its a non starter.

Try Royal Mail SmartStamp
www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/onlinepostage?catId=600023&gear=onlinepostage

£4.99 / month subscription plus cost of postage and lets you put in logos, return address, does Outlook mail merge etc.

[Plotloss]

Nice one James, I'll pass that on.

[Pigeon]

sadako said:

The people at The Smoking Gun managed to send a letter with a stamp that had a picture of the unabomber on it.

Hang on. You're saying that there's some kind of group, named "The Smoking Gun", which actually really exists on this planet Earth, and has something to do with the post? Please tell me what it is all about so I know what Terry Pratchett's on about with "The Smoking Gnu" - I thought he was making some kind of feeble joke about GNU/Linux.

Come to that, what is a unabomber?

[jamesc]

anonymous said:

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Nice one Lois!

[miniman]

Plotloss said:

Nice one James, I'll pass that on.

No problem. One word of advice - don't run off more than 10 envelopes / labels at a time. Not sure why, but this is advice given to me by their tech support after I ran off 50 envelopes and only 12 came out. Of course, it had charged me for the other 38. I got a refund, mind. It connects to their server for each print, I think, and lost the connection.