Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good job their reputation is so utterly flawless or this might seem like a monumentally dumb bit of PR right now.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not mentioned in this article but here there’s a statement from RM where they blame postmasters, again, when there’s a serious probability this is a computer bug, again.

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• wahming@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They were willing till prosecute, jail, and drive their postmasters to suicide, what’s a $5 fine?

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was the Post Office. Not Royal Mail.

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, my bad. And yet they managed to be equally shit.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Theres a difference? The uk has two public postal services?

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• Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok so I receive a letter with a fake stamp which I did not purchase, and I’m gonna be fined for it? How the fuck does that work?

  Tell you what, I’ll buy a fuck load of them for 4p each and send a bunch of mail to people I don’t like to bankrupt them with fines.

  Oh and the “Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract” but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I’ve sent mail to gets fined?

  Ah, email, where none of this matters.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh and the “Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract” but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I’ve sent mail to gets fined?

    As far as I know stamps and stamps books aren’t paired to a receipt, so it wouldn’t be possible to trace which stamps related to which purchase.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you receive a letter with a fake stamp I think you can refuse the fine but don’t then get the letter. Same as if someone hasn’t put enough stamps on something.

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  • aarrjaay@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, next week the police reveal that they will put YOU in prison if you get robbed.

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    • Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Be more than they do now

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see those who grew up with Zero Tolerance are finally learning to apply it elsewhere.

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• gimpchrist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol, rude

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