Printing postage online

[Frustrated]

This would be an amazing facility if it worked. I try to use it as much as possible for odd sized parcels and such-like. It saves being a pest in the queue at the Post Office. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I complain and don't receive an answer, just a threat that if I am lying about the thing not printing then Royal Mail will have the law on me!

It is a pretty slow system at the best of times, but it is handy to be able to print out a label for a packet at 11 pm, in my own office for example. Tonight I tried twice, to no avail, then I have to go through the reclaiming of postage rigmarole that wastes more time.

When I clicked on the 'label' tonight I got this friendly message:-

"FORBIDDEN
You have requested data that the server has decided not to provide to you. Your request was understood and denied."

Lucky old me, I assume that because I am sometimes granted the privilege of printing labels it means that the server has deemed me worthy, and granted permission. What a mess it all is.

[oggie]

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I have used this service for sometime now and have never had a problem with it, maybe its your computer settings, cookies etc

[Frustrated]

Many thanks for taking an interest. Well, I cleared Cookies completely after the first failure. This morning after 9am I went for the same address label and all was well. Maybe they service the thing at midnight!?

[Opti]

I used to quite like smartstamp but it was about a fiver per month and I thought it might jeapordise local counter staff jobs.

[oggie]

I used to quite like smartstamp but it was about a fiver per month and I thought it might jeapordise local counter staff jobs.

hope you still get your milk delivered, would not want to think you are jeapordising your local milkman's job.

[Opti]

I used to quite like smartstamp but it was about a fiver per month and I thought it might jeapordise local counter staff jobs.

hope you still get your milk delivered, would not want to think you are jeapordising your local milkman's job.

I do, as it happens.

[Frustrated]

Well, I do use my local village Post Office, but the staff are peaceful and quiet and decent and only have one pace - slowish! So for everything that can be done quickly at the counter I use the Post Office, but since the system changed, and they have to print receipts and so on, and as there is now a shortage of local Post Offices (thanks to the EU, remember, not to the UK Government which simply has to rubber-stamp Brussels Directives) I don't like to be the cause of a longer queue.

In olden days, when you stuck a stamp on and stuck a Recorded or Next Day sticker on the top left, if you needed that service, the ladies in the Post Office simply ripped a sticker off the Recorded etc label, stuck it in their book, and you walked away with the bottom of the label. Nowadays, the 'improved' system takes ages.