Horizon Training Labels             2004 Horizon ‘Training’ Postage Label – Produced in Counter Training Offices to familarise new staff to using Postage Label. The example shown is stamped ‘Training 209 Office’ dated 21st October 2004. Note the label is dated 9th December 2003 – the reason for the difference in […]

  First day of Post Office Essentials SiD On 1st September 2008 a new style of Post Office, known as ‘Post Office Essentials’ (Previously known as ‘Urban Outreach’) opened in the Old Town area of Hastings. This is the first branch of this type (other than a trial branch in Canterbury) to be ‘branded’ in […]

 The ‘Post and Go’ story continues in September 2008 with the roll-out of 20 Wincor Nixdorf ProPostal 2000 machines, commencing on 8th October 2008 in Bristol at ‘The Galleries’ Branch where two Nixdorf machines will replace the existing Fujitsu ones. These machines will vend two distinct and very different labels.   The larger type is for items to be posted […]

Following on from the “Weigh and Vend” experiment in 2004 at Alfreton, Luton and Broadgate, London EC2.  a further experiment – this time for a shorter duration of three months-was set up to assess the suitability of a simpler and less ambitious self-service facility- obviously with a view to finding a viable way of reducing […]

Between 25th March and 20th October 2004  , The Post Office commenced the first trials of an “automated postal kiosk” in three branches – known as  ‘Weigh and Vend’  (Badged Automated Postal Service)  and manufactured by the Korean company Samkyung Hitech Co., Ltd. The machines were installed in Luton, Beds; Broadgate, City of London and […]

In August 2003 the UK Post Office upgraded their Horizon system to include the ‘Smart post’ application which produced distinctly different Postage Labels. � The label above left is a Horizon ‘smart post’ label and on the right is a Horizon ‘scales’ label, both printed on a Ithaca dot Matrix Printer. The latest, current ‘Smart Post’ labels are now printed on […]

Early in 2002 after successfully installing computer terminals in all post office branches, Royal Mail followed the lead set by postal authorities in the USA, South Africa, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, by producing at the post office counters labels to be used instead of stamps. These are known, after the computer network, Horizon […]

 Frama labels were the inital experiment by the Post Office to find a way of providing valid postage labels without using multiple existing stamps. The machine could then dispense a single label to the required value alowing for an increased flexability in stamp vending. Cost savings could be made as only one (blank) roll of blank labels was required to […]