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UK Issues High-tech Stamps

Posted by michael on from the stick-to-the-topic dept.

bgood writes: "According to this story on Excite@Home, the UK's Royal Mail has released a series of "interactive" stamps. Included in the series: A scratch-and-sniff stamp, a stamp with a hologram, and another that shows an electrically-charged particle when warmed by finger heat. The stamps commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Prize and Britain's achievements. The Royal Mail describes the stamps here."

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  1. Sounds great by CaptainAlbert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Woohoo! Now, when I receive my bank statement / credit card demand / birthday cards / electricity bill about FOUR DAYS AFTER IT WAS POSTED from a town TWNETY MILES AWAY, I'll be able to interact with an inch-square piece of paper stuck to the front of it.

    Whoever thought this was a good way to spend money was a fool. Give it to our postmen, who are constantly striking because they're paid pittance.

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