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[casholaa] 11/4/2024 20:38

I doubt that we'll have 'stamps' as we know them within 5 years.

[freddie01] 11/4/2024 18:28

Maybe the time has come where you can only buy stamps directly from Royal Mail or the Post Office.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 15:00

@31357, you'll find that we pay vat to china on imports which is calculated including the shipping fee that is handed over to hmrc. It's not in their interests to see our costs going up.

[isis] 11/4/2024 14:30

I think they've got a handle on this. A quick google and can't find any of those scam stamps anymore, no doubt they're still about but you would have to go out of your way to find them. Ebay seem to be only selling only old Xmas one's etc.
They were popping up on my FB pages everyday a few months ago and looked very real except the prices really didn't add up.

[31337 c0d3r] 11/4/2024 13:47

Because China pays RM for the last leg of its exports to the UK.

I think you'll find that under the Universal Postal Union agreement, mail sent to the UK has to be delivered without charge and vice versa. Chinese sellers only have to ship to UK borders, and the Chinese state subsidises them. Hence why I can buy an item from China - and have it shipped all the way from China - cheaper than I can post it on to my next door neighbour.

[isis] 11/4/2024 12:50

I'm not saying the Government are forging them, just that you can buy literally anything copied in China.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 12:45

Because China pays RM for the last leg of its exports to the UK.

[isis] 11/4/2024 12:29

China Copies/forges everything. How can it not be China!

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 12:24

I wonder whether it was\is China, might just be scammers in China or printing in China. I recall all those love-frauds and advance fee frauds where nobody blamed the Nigerian government

[31337 c0d3r] 11/4/2024 12:17

China has more than likely been doing this for years, and only caught following the recent switch to barcoded stamps.

[isis] 11/4/2024 11:05

Fake Stamps cost RM £50m a year!

[isis] 11/4/2024 10:25

Yeah they may be lying and not told that they bought them online at a discount. Some were saying they bought from the P.O etc. which is highly unlikely.
They've been scammed. There were tons of Wilko adverts doing the rounds that looked legit for fire sale goods. Could not tell the difference as to the Website.
I googled it and found it was a Scam, if it looks too good to be true then it isn't.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 09:46

I agree, they should tell RM where they bought the stamps from or how they came by them.

*it may benefit RM to have a sale a couple times a year for residential customers

[isis] 11/4/2024 09:25

I feel sorry for the Punters who are buying these Stamps. It rang alarm Bells as they were offering the forged one's at 25% discount which didn't seem right on the adverts I saw.
The one's I buy are from WH Smiths which incidentally is also has the local Post Office inside.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 09:10

I'd love to know how many times the £5 charge has been successfully collected compared to the previous year. It seems potentially more fruitful to collect the £5 per stamp rather than £1.35 or £0.85 per stamp. Nice one China!

[31337 c0d3r] 11/4/2024 02:25

Errrr.... So we collect 5 quid each time one of these is used???


Yes, double the price it was just 6 months ago.

[casholaa] 10/4/2024 22:13

Errrr.... So we collect 5 quid each time one of these is used???

[isis] 10/4/2024 19:31

RM never get a fekin break! You have to wonder how many Millions were forged before the New Barcoded ones?

[moorsie2] 03/4/2024 18:43

This has definitely been oversold.

Value gap now to be filled