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.
Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps
Submitted 6 months ago by Mex@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months ago
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
They were willing till prosecute, jail, and drive their postmasters to suicide, what’s a $5 fine?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
That was the Post Office. Not Royal Mail.
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
Ah, my bad. And yet they managed to be equally shit.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Theres a difference? The uk has two public postal services?
Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 6 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.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 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.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 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.
aarrjaay@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Yes, next week the police reveal that they will put YOU in prison if you get robbed.
Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Be more than they do now
Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I see those who grew up with Zero Tolerance are finally learning to apply it elsewhere.
gimpchrist@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol, rude
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Good job their reputation is so utterly flawless or this might seem like a monumentally dumb bit of PR right now.