Postage by cell phone

Deutsche Post's new cell phone postage makes franking letters and postcards now also possible without a stamp

Bonn, 08/15/2008, 11:30 AM CEST

Whether day or night, on the move or from your home: Deutsche Post now makes it even easier for all letter writers to frank their post. Senders can now also simply and conveniently use the new HANDYPORTO postage service to prepare their standard letters and postcards for posting without a stamp, anywhere and anytime.

With Handyporto, letters and postcards can be prepared for posting anywhere and anytime.

All that is required is to send a text message with "Brief" or "Karte" to 22122 or to phone the number. Within a few seconds the sender receives a twelve-digit code.

Writing this code onto the envelope or postcard is enough to frank the item correctly.The flexible service has been available since August 15 as a market test in co-operation with the network operators T-Mobile and Vodafone. Registration is not required.

"With our innovative service we are fulfilling the expectations of the increasingly mobile society," said Marco Hauprich, head of New Technologies at Deutsche Post. "We are using the popular communications medium, the cell phone, in a completely new way and at the same time making franking independent of location and time for the first time."

Deutsche Post is initially providing HANDYPORTO postage for postcards and standard letters. The price is EUR0.85 and EUR0.95 respectively plus the network operator's costs for the text message or phone call and is invoiced directly via the service provider.

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