Recent content by Andrew L

  1. Andrew L

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    This is was in a reply I received from Royal Mail: "Our PSMs use advanced camera technology to read the data matrix on your parcels as they travel at high speeds across our belts. When presented with appropriate labels, the PSMs can achieve close to 100% read rates. The operating conditions...
  2. Andrew L

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    Push harder for the original label photo - it is taken by the machine before it is "rejected". I got one and could scan it from a poor-quality image on my PC screen. As matrix barcodes have redundancy built into them, I think it is looking like a revenue-generating scheme or some poorly...
  3. Andrew L

    Royal Mail Theft By Surcharge

    I have "non-readable" barcode charges levied over a 3 week period between February and March. Since then I have not had any charges. I requested copies of the barcodes and I was able to read the barcodes directly from the poor quality image on my PC screen using a cheap 2d barcode scanner from...