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"No Value Stamps" DO EXPIRE - Apparently!
lucknnow
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I recently sent a letter which was held back due to the stamp being invalid. Reason- it was apparently "recycled"
I got the letter back after paying a surcharge of £2 plus having to take the time to drive 50 miles roundtrip to the sorting office. (I live in a very remote area).
I complained to Royal Mail and got a reply. They are adamant the stamp was invalid as it does not have the requisite water marks which therefore caused the machine to reject it.
The stamp was legally bought direct from the Royal Mail and I still have 8 left in the book. Although I must add this book of stamps was bought about 5 years ago. In fact I have "hoarded" a lot of stamps then when the prices started to rise sharply.
This is the first time this happened.
I am concern now that my hoard of older stamps are no longer valid.
Has anybody else has a similar experience?
I got the letter back after paying a surcharge of £2 plus having to take the time to drive 50 miles roundtrip to the sorting office. (I live in a very remote area).
I complained to Royal Mail and got a reply. They are adamant the stamp was invalid as it does not have the requisite water marks which therefore caused the machine to reject it.
The stamp was legally bought direct from the Royal Mail and I still have 8 left in the book. Although I must add this book of stamps was bought about 5 years ago. In fact I have "hoarded" a lot of stamps then when the prices started to rise sharply.
This is the first time this happened.
I am concern now that my hoard of older stamps are no longer valid.
Has anybody else has a similar experience?
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Comments
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No watermark is not the same as a stamp being recycled. Do your other stamps have the watermark through them?
(I've some no value ones that definitely have the watermark, and have the two strips in to stop them being reused. No idea how old they are.)0 -
did you use any extra adhesives?0
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No watermark is not the same as a stamp being recycled. Do your other stamps have the watermark through them?
(I've some no value ones that definitely have the watermark, and have the two strips in to stop them being reused. No idea how old they are.)
2009 or newer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5400999/Royal-Mail-launches-tamper-proof-stamp.html0 -
The stamp was used right off the book. It has no markings like the new ones and it was definitely genuinely bought from the PO0
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The stamp was used right off the book. It has no markings like the new ones and it was definitely genuinely bought from the PO
Nobody is saying you didnt.
It is nothing to do with 'expiring' as you seem to have decided.
What is at play here is revenue protection and reused stamps.
rightly or wrongly its been flagged up. probably in error.
In the main RM lose far more than they catch with reused/fake stamps (before we even talk about things such as fake PPI labeling)0 -
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From an internet search there are several reports of old stamps being rejected.
One suggestion is that new equipment does not recognise them and so rejects them.0
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