The stamps are sticky on a backing and the perforations are *all* fake, so it would take effort to separate them.
I've heard that if the postmark misses the stamp (something that the Post Office have worried about a lot) and you put a used stamp on a new letter, they will known by the QR code - I guess it is a serial number, not a model number - and make the recipient pay ...
See the tall thin ovals at the bottom corners ? They are designed to tear off if you pull the stamp off the envelope, so that you cannot re-use them, even if they have not been posted. This is an earlier mechanism to stop fraud. Since this stops you from reusing unposted stamps there have been complaints, but I am not sure that we use stamps much any more and they have remained.
I wonder how long until stamps have Charles wearing a crown ?
[ Somewhere mum has some nearly complete sheets of mint Edward VIII stamps without crown. My grandfather took them out of his business office when Edward abdicated. ]
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 04:24 pm (UTC)I've heard that if the postmark misses the stamp (something that the Post Office have worried about a lot) and you put a used stamp on a new letter, they will known by the QR code - I guess it is a serial number, not a model number - and make the recipient pay ...
If the postmark misses the stamp ...
Date: 2024-09-01 04:32 pm (UTC)They are designed to tear off if you pull the stamp off the envelope, so that you cannot re-use them, even if they have not been posted. This is an earlier mechanism to stop fraud.
Since this stops you from reusing unposted stamps there have been complaints, but I am not sure that we use stamps much any more and they have remained.
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Date: 2024-09-01 05:21 pm (UTC)[ Somewhere mum has some nearly complete sheets of mint Edward VIII stamps without
crown. My grandfather took them out of his business office when Edward abdicated. ]