Postage Stamps Go High-Tech With QR Code-Like Stamp Readable by Apps [IPhone Apps]

The UK’s Royal Mail may’ve been kicking around in some shape or form since 1516, but they’ve become the first postal service to create an ” intelligent stamp ,” readable like a QR code by an Android or iPhone app.

They’re being particularly cagey about how the stamp works, in typical Royal Mail fashion (I swear I’m still looking ahead to parcels to be delivered from 2005), but with the Junaio app being free on both platforms, anyone inside the UK can test it out from next week.

And needless to say, international philatelists could beg their British friends to post them a letter with the high-tech stamp, that is portion of the comprehensive British Railways series. Among the features which might be unlocked is a reading of W.H Auden’s poem The Night Train, by Bernard Cribbins. [ BBC and TechRadar ]

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