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Just confirmed this one with one of the founders...

"that puts quite a bit of work on the delivery service."

This is exactly what has been done - the barcode translates to a consignment number that is useless without access to myHermes' database. This is in virtue of them having recently incorporated new barcode scanners that link them into this system.

[EDIT: dunno about the https overkill, though]

Hmm. That's cool; the numbers would need to be per-package, not per-sender, and not sequential, but I assume those have been taken care of.

Cool.

Hmm. That's cool; the numbers would need to be per-package, not per-sender, and not sequential, but I assume those have been taken care of.

Cool.

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