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Royal Mail will be introducing a new stamp system within months, rendering thousands of traditional stamps unusable. People across the UK have until January to use up their stamps.
The postal company will be replacing the Queen’s head with a barcode system that will make letter sending safer. From January 31, 2023 only stamps with the barcodes will be valid.
This new system will not affect the price of posting and tracking letters, but people who try to send letters with old stamps will face a surcharge, reports Birmingham Live.
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The barcode will sit alongside the Queen, or other image, in an attempt to make letter sending more secure. The barcodes will soon become commonplace on all standard and Christmas stamps with each one having a “digital twin” that contains a unique code alongside it.
Royal Mail managers have recently gone on strike over a pay row. The cost of living crisis is causing huge problems and worries for most of the public.
Dubbed the summer of discontent, Royal Mail is not alone in striking. Railway workers have also gone on strike with British Airways workers also striking at Heathrow.
The railway strikes that took place at the end of the last month caused disruption across the county. Southeastern urged passengers to only travel if necessary.
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