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In the UK pretty much every courier offers a pickup service. You book it in, they give you a label to print, they turn up and take it. It's probably exactly lik
by leoedin 7y ago
In the UK pretty much every courier offers a pickup service. You book it in, they give you a label to print, they turn up and take it. It's probably exactly like that. If you order from 6 shops, they ship 6 packages to you.
- sigwinch28 7y agoSome couriers (DPD? UPS?) in the UK take this a step further and will even come with the label ready to stick on the box. Great if you don't have access to a printer. I recall (perhaps incorrectly) that Royal Mail once offered a service where you could buy an "online stamp", then you would write a long string of letters and numbers above the address on the envelope to send it. It was distinct from freepost.
- vinay427 7y agoThe Swiss Post currently has a stamp-by-SMS service for normal letters where upon sending an SMS to an automated system, you are charged the normal stamp price using the premium SMS system, and you receive a sequence (8-10 characters long IIRC) which you write where a stamp would normally go at the top-right of the envelope. It's far more convenient than having to remember to buy stamps in advance or typically going out of your way to a post office just to mail a letter as mail boxes, by contrast, exist seemingly all over the place.
- 101404 7y ago"So, what's your hobby?" "I collect 10 character long strings."