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I doubt they ever prosecute anyone for counterfeiting a stamp, but if the law only forbid counterfeiting 100 stamps a counterfeiter would do 99 at a time.
> if the law only forbid counterfeiting 100 stamps a counterfeiter would do 99 at a time. And by the second batch they'd have counterfeited 198, so I fail to see the problem...
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It's worse than that. They introduced new stamps with barcodes and let you trade in your old lawfully obtained postage for the new barcoded stuff. They are marking some of their own lawfully obtained stamps as counterfeit and by dint of doing so stealing from their citizenry. It's roughly analogous to having bought speed guns from an incompetent vendor which sometimes read 200 kph no matter what the speed and insisti…
> They are marking some of their own lawfully obtained stamps as counterfeit and by dint of doing so stealing from their citizenry This is called "fraud" and in any properly-run country people would be doing long prison sentences for it. Sadly, the UK is not a properly-run country.
Royal Mail needs to be slapped with a massive Freedom of Information request. We need to see how many fines have been paid. We had one of these a year and a half ago, similar story. Seemed BS back then, so this could be a big problem.
Royal Mail, as a private (well… public) company, is not subject to FOIA requests.
Insane!
Britain imitating Monty Python.
I don’t know whether I should post this as it may be an ongoing case, but not so long ago I sent off my old stamps to the official “swap out” service to have them replaced by the new barcoded ones. A few days later, I did indeed receive equivalent new stamps back — in an envelope that had clearly been tampered with, being roughly cut open all down one side and having the paperwork accompanying the stamps obviously be…
The fee was increased recently too I believe
This definitely needs investigating properly and determining if we have another Post Office-like scandal on our hands.
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More money goes to corrupt politicians than to the royals. It's less than 100M per year with 67M people. I don't like supporting the royals but it's a small portion of taxes.
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The barcode in the article decodes to "JGB S11221017031011395940006622112101 BC046285E760466C01" if anyone fancies having a crack at making a stamp keygen.
I didn't actually realize one could fit so much into such a small barcode. I do wonder if this now means it is in theory possible to track items sent by letter post.