Royal mail has introduced online postage throughout UK, to enable Iinternet users to buy postage over the Iinternet via credit cards. Besides reducing queues at post offices, the service will enable customers to follow the progress of their items online through a ’tracking’ system.
Each item of mail is given a barcode which can be printed at home, directly onto the envelope or label and dropped in a post box. However, recorded and special delivery items are required to be taken to a Post Office for dispatch. The free service will be available online, 24 hours a day and postage can be bought at normal rates.
The Royal Mail said that with the growing population of Iinternet users, it expected the free postage service to have mass appeal. The postage service also said that the new service would appeal particularly to home workers and to people who sell goods via eBay and other auction sites. The Royal Mail also has another postage service, SmartStamp which provides a company logo next to the mailing print-off and is aimed at small businesses at


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