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Not in the FAQ: "If this is so important, why don't these changes apply to special stamps?" and "You're designing new stamps, but you're putting the Late Queen on them, not the new King?"
"I'm 90 years old and I don't know what 'download an app' or 'fill the form online' even mean. Provided you don't swap stamps at the post office, what you suggest me to do?"
But these won't even read this online-only announcement, so I guess ... screw them.
* See what mail is headed your way. They could have email/text/app notifications of mail that's headed towards you, including a picture of the outside of the parcel and estimated delivery dates/times.
* The ability for the receiver to pay to prioritize incoming mail. Sometimes you're sent something with slow second class mail, but then realise you really need it urgently, so could pay to 'upgrade' to express service.
* Auto upgrade all mail headed to you if you buy stuff online and hate businesses that send stuff with cheap shipping.
* Perhaps an x-ray service so you can see inside parcels - would be handy for businesses that do returns who need to check the real goods are headed their way.
* Super express services. Pay £500 and we'll dispatch an employee direct to your address with the parcel, and it'll take the driving time plus 10 minutes. Operationally it's only the same as the employee going home sick midday.
* One off redirect services. 'I'm at work today, send my parcel there'.
* Allow adding delay. 'Im on holiday, don't deliver any mail for me this week, I don't want someone breaking into my house to steal it'.
* Allow binning a letter before it even arrives - for spam and junkmail. Maybe have automated spam filters which can be enabled (and binned items can be held for a while before being actually destroyed in case of classification error).
* Allow understanding names of people at your address - eg. "Return to sender any mail addressed to Fred Smith, he no longer lives at my house"
* Notifications that the postman is 5 minutes away and has something too large for a regular letterbox. That means the postman won't have to wait so long after ringing the doorbell.
* "Letter to email" service. If you ask, they open the envelope and scan and email you a pdf of the contents. Then you get the info faster, and is also helpful for people away from home, businesses that need a mailing address but have no employees to deal with mail, etc.
All of these services would be free/cheap to implement, and each could be a chargable service that earns the company money.
Not in the FAQ: "If this is so important, why don't these changes apply to special stamps?" and "You're designing new stamps, but you're putting the Late Queen on them, not the new King?"
Also not in the FAQ: "I'm 90 years old and I don't know what 'download an app' or 'fill the form online' even mean. Provided you don't swap stamps at the post office, what you suggest me to do?" But these won't even read this online-only announcement, so I guess ... screw them.
It's printed on envelopes recently arrived currently.
That's how I heard about this
If whatever security measures you have in place ever get broken (watermarks, holograms, digital signatures, etc), then you have a big problem.
And no security feature available today will be secure forever.
So your company or government should never issue digital or real tokens that last forever.
Not in the FAQ: "If this is so important, why don't these changes apply to special stamps?" and "You're designing new stamps, but you're putting the Late Queen on them, not the new King?"
For those who are curious, these are 2DID Datamatrix codes, also used in the semiconductor industry extensively to mark wafers and chips. If you pick up an Intel CPU, its going to have a couple of tiny datamatrix codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix
If anyone was curious why Data Matrix instead of QR Code this article goes into detail: https://www.laserax.com/blog/data-matrix-vs-qr-codes Looks like Data Matrix has higher error correction (per size) and better data density (at every size). QR Code has a higher theoretical storage capacity, larger maximum size, and multi-byte data support (rather than limited to alphanumeric), none of which applies to this use cas…
In NL you can just buy a 9 letter code, write it on your envelope, and you’re fine. No need for any stamps
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also not in the FAQ: "I'm 90 years old and I don't know what 'download an app' or 'fill the form online' even mean. Provided you don't swap stamps at the post office, what you suggest me to do?" But these won't even read this online-only announcement, so I guess ... screw them.
>online-only It's printed on envelopes recently arrived currently. That's how I heard about this
Translation: Keeping with our effort to turn this country into more of a Panopticon, and aligned with our belief that no two parties should be able to communicate privately, we hate that you can send mail mostly anonymously, and this gives us a bit more power to surveil you by making stamps unique.
At best 50% of the parties to the letter are known, at worst 100%. And that is with the mail sealed.
> communicate privately
There is a piece of paper between them and the contents, and they have been handed the literal envelope to deliver. That isnt much security, and not much privacy.