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Post Office - Print Your Own Stamps
moonrakerz
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Not so much a "vent" as a long head scratch ! 
For the last 12 months I have been using the Post Office facility to print your own stamps - quite good, but a bit strange in places; why do you have to enter 4 lines of address even if the address you need is only 3 lines ? and why is one of those 4 compulsory lines NOT the postcode ? Anyway, I digress.............
I prepay my account by use of my credit card, usually in £10 lots, my current card was due to expire at the end of this month. No problem, I put £10 on my account 8 weeks ago and have used half of it.
Yesterday I had an e-mail from the PO headed: "your card has been expired" ! It went on to inform me that because my card was about to expire, the remaining credit on my account would be paid back into that credit card account.
I am totally mystified why such a bizarre procedure would be followed. The £10 was charged to my card in April, in May I paid Morgan Stanley's bill. The PO had £10 of my money - why pay some of it back when the card I used to pay it 8 weeks previously is about to expire ???
Using this logic everything I have purchased on this card over the last two years will stop working on the 30th June.
For the last 12 months I have been using the Post Office facility to print your own stamps - quite good, but a bit strange in places; why do you have to enter 4 lines of address even if the address you need is only 3 lines ? and why is one of those 4 compulsory lines NOT the postcode ? Anyway, I digress.............
I prepay my account by use of my credit card, usually in £10 lots, my current card was due to expire at the end of this month. No problem, I put £10 on my account 8 weeks ago and have used half of it.
Yesterday I had an e-mail from the PO headed: "your card has been expired" ! It went on to inform me that because my card was about to expire, the remaining credit on my account would be paid back into that credit card account.
I am totally mystified why such a bizarre procedure would be followed. The £10 was charged to my card in April, in May I paid Morgan Stanley's bill. The PO had £10 of my money - why pay some of it back when the card I used to pay it 8 weeks previously is about to expire ???
Using this logic everything I have purchased on this card over the last two years will stop working on the 30th June.
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Oh...I hate that system. It doesn't give you proper options for overseas postage either ie for addresses without postcodes.
The paypal system annpys me too. You can't send a packet second class if paying via paypal. it is half the price if you go into the post office....0 -
Do you guys use Smartstamp?
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Do you guys use Smartstamp?
No, I don't see any point in paying £4.99 a month to pay normal postage rates when I can do that for free on this:
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?catId=400046&mediaId=26800663
You can personalise your envelopes by printing them first, before you add the postage.0
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