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does anyone print their own postage

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  • crazyshady
    crazyshady Posts: 329 Forumite
    Yeah your right. Best waiting till ive sold a bunch of CDs then. Then the weight and size will match :p
  • DaveAshton
    DaveAshton Posts: 7,851 Forumite
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    soolin wrote: »
    They would all be the same weight and to the same address though, and i'm sure the PO have some way of identifying fraudulent users.
    Yep, that's why it's got a barcode I think. Something to do with RM scanning the barcode... Obviously, if you use the same label more than once, the barcode's already been used. So the second parcel with that barcode will probably just be returned to you, maybe even along with a warning from RM about doing it.
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  • crazyshady
    crazyshady Posts: 329 Forumite
    You could just get a pen and colour in a few extra lines lolol.
  • soolin
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    crazyshady wrote: »
    Yeah your right. Best waiting till ive sold a bunch of CDs then. Then the weight and size will match :p

    You'd still have to send them all to the same person though :confused:
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  • crazyshady
    crazyshady Posts: 329 Forumite
    Is it not possible to take a screenshot and then edit in a program? Wipe out and retype address or nothing? Och who am i kidding. Im sure Royal Mail have a modern technological system in place. Silly me.
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    Printing your own labels (and CoP if needed) works fine, you can also get a refund online if needed.

    I buy100 stick-on A6 document-wallets, it's so much quicker then writing out the address and sticking on stamps.
  • DaveAshton
    DaveAshton Posts: 7,851 Forumite
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    crazyshady wrote: »
    You could just get a pen and colour in a few extra lines lolol.
    crazyshady wrote: »
    Is it not possible to take a screenshot and then edit in a program? Wipe out and retype address or nothing? Och who am i kidding. Im sure Royal Mail have a modern technological system in place. Silly me.

    Is it really worth the risk, though? If Royal Mail notice, they could ether deliver the parcel, and make the buyer pay the full price + £1. Or, they'll return it to you, and then you'll have to resend it (probably at a time too late to qualify for Paypal seller protection).

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  • soolin
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    It's fraud and since the mail is still (at least for a while) the Royal Mail not a clever thing to do.

    End of story.
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  • TurkishDelight
    TurkishDelight Posts: 7,739 Forumite
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    It's got a dot matrix code, which I presume contains ALL nessecary info, including address of recipient. So you could end up sending loads of stuff to one buyer.... and then I will do this :rotfl: because you are a moron.
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