Stamps

[Bod ...]

I don't collect many stamps, only the ones that haven't been stamped.
Like these.

I'm taking that they don't stamp stamps no more and it's a bar code that is caned that shows they have been used.

Am I correct?

 

[Mottie]

I think so - pretty sure you can’t use them without the bar code.

 

[JohnD]

It's not a bar code.

 

[Mottie]

It's not a bar code.

It is.

 

[Mottie]

Barcoded Stamps - Postage and Packaging

shop.royalmail.com

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Philately will get you nowhere!

 

[Trazor]

Philately will get you nowhere!

Yes, let's Stamp out Philately.

 

[Mottie]

Let’s get this licked.

 

[Bod ...]

Let’s get this licked.

That's classed as assault these days

 

[JohnD]

noun: bar code

1. a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.

 

[fillyboy]

noun: bar code

1. a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.

 

[conny]

noun: bar code

1. a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.

2. Also a term used by the Post Office, for a rectangle on the right hand side of a postage stamp, containing a pattern of random squiggles.

 

[JohnD]

So it's a giraffe.

 

[Roy Bloom]

So it's a giraffe.

Could be, they're popping up in all sorts of places now.

 

[Mottie]

noun: bar code

1. a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.

That’s a one-dimensional bar code (1D) Johnny boy. The bar codes on stamps are two-dimensional bar codes (2D) and they contain a lot more info. Not to be confused with QR codes. You're welcome.