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In France the post office does that for you. You send them a PDF and they print it, stamp it and deliver it.

As a bonus you get traceability.

heard about that! My experience is that in France they still use a lot of traditional stuff like cheques, but this is really cool.

We are right in the technological middle ages in our administration or banks.

The national post is there too, except for a few things like these.

And yes we still use cheques, and this actually hinders evolution in banking.

Yes, I just looked at the website of the French Post. And I am a little bit shocked how many templates they have for administrative processes.. (Demarches administratives - 37). Looks like they need a good Post service because people still need to send a lot of important letters by physical mail..

So many things are done in France via un petit courrier - "a little (snail) mail"...

We have printing kiosks, in places like public libraries, that are particularly popular with students. They are inexpensive (0.10€ a page in colour) and good quality (laser).

Who can afford to have a printer at home?

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