How to spot fake 2nd class stamps ?

SevenOfNine

I 're-use' stamps that haven't been franked whenever I get any. Soak them off in a saucer of water, no sticky residue left. The PO have introduced some funny oval cut out bits which are supposed to make it harder to do this..........I've got news for them - doesn't make the slightest bit of difference, I still manage to get them off undamaged. (Though why I faff about for a measly few pence is beyond me.)

The difference being I re-use them using pritt stick not sellotape! I'm amazed these made it through the sorting office with sellotape on them. Look on the bright side Deanos, you can re-use the one on the right yourself.

ukjoel

Interesting thread - I think the reason stamps are not faked more is not due to the low value but due to the tracibility of the items. For the average person its simply not worth it (although a few will soak and reuse those without postmarks) but for a business the cost of sticking every stamp on every envelope compared to using a legitimate address and franking printer is pretty similar.

Also as stamps have a literal value in the same way money does anyone offering stamps for significantly less than face value would be regarded very suspiciously in the same way someone offering you a £20 note for a fiver would be.

Thats why the security on stamps is a little flap that doesnt work and £20 notes have holograms, complex pictures of blokes with beards and watermarks.

pulliptears

Have a look through your Ebay sellers feedback and see if they have recently bought a bottle of Stamp Removal Fluid from Ebay

custardy

SevenOfNine wrote: »

I 're-use' stamps that haven't been franked whenever I get any. Soak them off in a saucer of water, no sticky residue left. The PO have introduced some funny oval cut out bits which are supposed to make it harder to do this..........I've got news for them - doesn't make the slightest bit of difference, I still manage to get them off undamaged. (Though why I faff about for a measly few pence is beyond me.)

The difference being I re-use them using pritt stick not sellotape! I'm amazed these made it through the sorting office with sellotape on them. Look on the bright side Deanos, you can re-use the one on the right yourself.

do you shoplift as well?

Mupette

my mum used to work in a post room and if the stamp wasn't stamped she would remove them, i still have an envelope full of stamps that don't have any markings on that they have been used, although no longer sticky, i get the pritstick out and reuse em.

custardy wrote: »

do you shoplift as well?

although you ask sevenonine this question, i'll answer for me, no i don't shop lift, where is the relevance?

Tigsteroonie

marleyboy wrote: »

Fair enough, it shows how long its been since I used stamps I blame e-mail

It's not his fault, I didn't leave him with any stamps in the house to check before he wrote the post - they're all in my handbag, and I'm away from home just now

deanos

pulliptears wrote: »

Have a look through your Ebay sellers feedback and see if they have recently bought a bottle of Stamp Removal Fluid from Ebay

Just had a nosey and he has bought some unfranked ungummed used 2nd class LL stamps so thats where they have come from

Harry_Flashman

It got delivered ...... where's the problem?

custardy

Mupette wrote: »

my mum used to work in a post room and if the stamp wasn't stamped she would remove them, i still have an envelope full of stamps that don't have any markings on that they have been used, although no longer sticky, i get the pritstick out and reuse em.



although you ask sevenonine this question, i'll answer for me, no i don't shop lift, where is the relevance?

receiving goods/services without paying for them
as long as the Tesco security guard doesnt catch you,its fine isnt it?

dacouch

Out of interest Custardy, what do the Royal Mail do to letters they intercept that have taped on stamps on the envelope, do they give the receiver one of the extra charge cards ?