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Reports suggest a rise in complaints that stamps bought from legitimate stores are being deemed counterfeit. Anyone who receives a letter with a fake stamp is charged £5 by Royal Mail.
Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith told BBC Breakfast: “China is behind it.”
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are working hard to remove counterfeit stamps from circulation.”
Consumers are being warned to look out for strange perforations around the edge of a stamp, a shine to the surface or the colour looking off.
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Is there a way to actually scan the stamps yourself to see if they’re still valid? Presumably the barcodes on them are unique and one time use.
Stay classy, china.
Fake stamps were bound to happen. They’re so expensive now