Paying in UK Stamps

With firms wanting to be payed via the Internet – what about making use of UK Stamps for payment for relative small amounts?

I doubt that no small table-top enterprise will send letters in enough volume these days for that to work. Businesses have franking machines – what are stamps?. If you complete your transaction electronically, including payment, the vendor knows that you’ve paid and can send you the goods that day.

This is all symptomatic of the later (last) gasps of the body of people wanting to use payment tokens (cash etc.)
I’m afraid, with a combination of banks withdrawing cash machines and closing branches, the general availability of the old payment methods is reducing rapidly. Even cheques are heading toward the history books.

Having spent a fortnight in London (working @ GBBF for anyone interested) I found most pubs and catering businesses tended to only take cash if you tendered the exact amount and sometimes were card only.
Covid promoted hygiene is often cited as the push to avoid what might be “filthy lucre”, but I’ve maintained for years that this was coming.

I certainly find it much more convenient not to use cash. I realised that I can dispense with carrying a wallet. My mobile phone case has space for a few cards, so I carry just theose I might need. I do also carry one note of money (currently £20, although that’s big enough that its edge gets bent in the fold of the case, so I prefer £5 or £10 when I can get them) just in case I do need a bit of cash. Happens maybe a couple of times a year.

The only person who has to have cash is our window cleaner, so we have to go to a cash machine every few months, primarily for him. Bloody nuisance.

We went to Costa this morning, and I paid with the phone (Barclaycard via their app and NFC).

The only person who has to have cash is our window cleaner, so we have to go to a cash machine every few months, primarily for him. Bloody nuisance.

Ah, we had that with the local milkman – his son did all the collecting¹ and wanted to set up an account with a mobile P.O.S as he was the one doing the walking around after his proper job.
He had time off for a cataract op, started back too soon and developed a detached retina. The replacement firm insist on e-payments…

¹ Collecting with repeat visits to the houses where people permanently seemingly had “no cash”

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