In a move to remain relevant as communications move online more and more, Denmark’s post office has introduced a digital postage stamp system, Springwise reports.
The new system has the sender scrawling a series of characters onto the envelope before sending the letter off. Customers purchase their post stamp code via text message, and the post office scans the code on the envelope as it processes mail.
So really, everything about the new system is digital, except for the stamps.
Something similar already exists in Germany in an effort to help people save time, but I’m not sure how much time it really does save. At least where I live, the roadside postbox doesn’t really exist anymore and you end up at a post office to send that once-a-year snail mail anyway.
The Swedish Post Service are going to try and introduce digital stamps through SMS later this year.
Source, albeit in Swedish: http://mobil.idg.se/2.1085/1.373161
not sure this is going to work so well, except with the younger crowd, who do not even use the post office, they use twitter, facebook, web 2.0 sites and never send mail
those that do use the post office are the older generation and trying to text for stamps does not seem to be anything they would even venture to try, just buy a book of stamps and have them handy, much simpler
I am never going to do it unless I am forced into it
Charlie
http://www.fyidenmark.com/postofficeDenmark.html