text to send
March 8, 2011 at 10:55 am Leave a comment
It looks like the beginning of the end for the humble and lovable stamp.
In a move that could potentially spread panic (and rightly so) among stamp collectors, The Local reports the Swedish postal service is toying with the idea of allowing customers to pay for postage through texts, rather than stamps.
An innovative application of mobile payments, but a setback to collectors everywhere.
The system under consideration in Sweden would allow users to use codes retrieved via text message for sending letters and parcels weighing up to two kilogrammes.
The postal services in both Sweden and Denmark are convinced that people will continue to send letters, despite the rise in other forms of communication, and paying postage by mobile phone is seen as a way of making the process easier.
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