There is a serious aspect to this. Personally,  I avoid using the Royal Mail service because of its high cost and unreliability. (It's amazing how the Post Office with one of the most sophisticated post code systems in the world can't differentiate between addresses in Disraeli and Fawe Park Roads - and that applies to letters and parcels!) I only use post for where it's legally necessary to send a document and then a service where documents are tracked and signed for which givesme proof of receipt. Electronic communications are so much cheaper, quicker and more convenient.  However, many still like to pay bills using cheques sent through the post. If it can't be guaranteed that the stamps aren't fraudulent then what will happen to these cheques? I imagine, for example, utility companies won't pay out £5 a time for each letter with a fraudulent stamp? This is a systemic failure in the postal stamp supply system that the Royal Mail must address. Perhaps, rather than pre-printing stamps, they need to introduce point of sale systems that prints the stamps on demand at purchase time and reords the barcode referencs at that time? (I'm not sure if that's financially viable but the cost of fraud both in lost revenue and counteracting it must be significant?)

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Royal Mail is a beacon of British failure	13/04/24 10:30:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Royal Mail is a beacon of British failure	13/04/24 11:46:00	Gerry Boyce
Reply	13/04/24 23:52:00	Michael Ixer
Reply	15/04/24 12:22:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	15/04/24 17:00:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	17/04/24 14:53:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	17/04/24 16:09:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Reply	17/04/24 16:36:00	Emma Blackwell
Re:Re:Re:Reply	17/04/24 16:40:00	Emma Blackwell

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