scott wrote:

> You can buy parcel shipping online here in Germany, and you get a label 
> to print out with the barcode on.  This is then scanned by the machine 
> at the unmanned drop-off point.  Once my inkjet had a blocked nozzle and 
> I was there for 10 minutes trying to get the damn thing to scan.  Then I 
> realised what the problem was, got a black pen and filled in the bar 
> that had a bit missing by hand - it worked!

That's pretty epic, really... :-D

Actually, I notice the Royal Mail let you buy "stamps" online now, where 
the stamp is actually a PDF file which prints out a 2D barcode...

Oh, and I finally found out what all those zig-zags are for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM4SCC

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