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Barcodes on British stamps draw the ire of hand-written letter aficionados
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To send a hand-written letter is to take a break from today's digital world, says Dinah Johnson. So when she heard about the U.K. Royal Mail was adding barcodes to their stamps, she wasn't exactly thrilled. She's the founder of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, and she spoke to guest host Ginella Massa about what she sees as an unwanted digital incursion into her decidedly non-digital passtime.