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AIBU to ask why the new stamps of detachable barcodes if they don’t want you to detach them before sending?

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Blah1881 · 23/01/2023 12:38

I’m so pissed off because I’ve just sent money in a card to a relative using the new stamp which I bought at a supermarket. Nowhere on the stamp book packaging did it say ‘do not detach barcode) so I assumed it was something I should hang on to so I could track the letter. Now I learn that you have to keep the barcode on if the stamp is to be considered valid- aaargh! Why serrate the edge between the stamp and barcode if they don’t want you to detach it? Why no instructions on the bloody packaging?! Surely I am not alone in being caught out by this? AIBU?

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PaulRobinsonsSeventhWife · 23/01/2023 15:50

I don't like how they're so big, my thank you cards are very small and I have to be careful where I write the address!

starpatch · 23/01/2023 15:49

Mine are perforated. So pissed off with royal mail about making the other stamps invalid, some of them I only bought in August. Then they make it our responsibility to send them back, print out a form, calculate the value, they know a large percentage of people won't manage to do this and they will end up quids in.

ShaunaTheSheep · 23/01/2023 15:45

It's a daft design having a wavy line! I wonder why the barcode wasn't integrated into the stamp design.

www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

All the info here about swapping out old for new, if anyone is interested.

Zingy123 · 23/01/2023 15:33

They aren't perforated. You must have cut it. Haven't you seen the advertisements about them?

AuntieStella · 23/01/2023 15:10

I think, cynically, it's so people will get it wrong so they can charge the recipient penalty postage.

Poor show. The code should be an integral part of the stamp

1987qwerty · 23/01/2023 15:08

Not perforated.

LaMagdalena · 23/01/2023 12:54

No, they are not perforated, there's just a line between the stamp and barcode.

SoupDragon · 23/01/2023 12:53

You don't have to add a pile of wank to the process of posting a letter

what "pile of wank"? You peel the stamp off, you stick it on the envelope. Just like before. None of my barcodes split off when I peel the stamp off the backing.

SoupDragon · 23/01/2023 12:50

Are they actually perforated then? I've just looked at the ones I've got (one book and a sheet of Christmas ones) and the perforations just seem to be printed on rather than cut.

I mean' obviously yours must be otherwise you couldn't have ripped them but mine don't seem to be 😂

FatOaf · 23/01/2023 12:46

It is a stupid design, unsurprisingly. Why are they perforated? Why do they refer to the QR codes as "barcodes" (a barcode is something different)? And what the hell is the Shaun the Sheep thing? Why can't I just buy a stamp? If it needs a QR code on it, fine: print one on the spamp itself. You don't have to add a pile of wank to the process of posting a letter. Use of Royal Mail is declining rapidly enough already, and this will speed it up.

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