Fake UK stamps blamed on Chinese-made counterfeits
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People are unknowingly buying fakes from Chinese firms through online marketplaces, reports suggest.

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.

  • @Ross_audioEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    Or they go close to bust and get renationalised.

    If Labour are smart about it they’ll keep the USO in place and when it’s shown the business isn’t profitable take the assets back into public hands at a reasonable price.

    The key problem with the new stamps is there’s no way for someone to check the validity themselves.

    It’s also just a barcode, so a fake stamp that gets used with that barcode first doesn’t get stopped and the legitimate one does.

    There have definitely been some batches where the barcodes have leaked.