Sarah Huckabee Sanders has sent a letter to the incoming Trump administration heads of the Health and Agriculture departments, calling for the end of junk food as part of the federal food stamp ...

Royal Mail has stepped up its fight against stamp fraudsters with a scanner within its app to check for counterfeit stamps. Customers simply need to scan a stamp's barcode using the app to find ...

As Royal Mail transitioned towards barcoded stamps last year, the public had until the end of July 2023 to swap out their old paper stamps with ones carrying a 2D data matrix barcode at no cost.

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Royal Mail is investigating problems with new barcoded stamps amid fears customers are ... its scanning technology used to read the barcodes – which some fear is the cause of the problem.

The majority of stamps without barcodes have not been valid since July 31, following a six-month extension after the introduction of new digital stamps. Writing in Friday’s letters page ...

The deadline has now unfortunately passed. Royal Mail has updated stamps by adding barcodes, meaning existing stamps that do not have them will become obsolete. Royal Mail introduced the ...

Royal Mail customers hoping to exchange their old stamps have expressed their anger towards the Post Office after allegedly being told these are fake. This comes amid a move by the national postal ...

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Some consumers attempting to swap old Royal Mail stamps for new versions with a barcode have been told their purchases are fake, according to new allegations. From August, regular stamps without a ...

Some consumers attempting to swap old Royal Mail stamps for new versions with a barcode have been told their purchases are fake, according to new allegations. From August, regular stamps without a ...

Stamps without a barcode will no longer be valid for postage after a new design has been introduced. The change is part of a new scheme to digitalise stamps, and from now on they will all feature ...