Counterfeit Postage Stamps

[beowulff]

@md2000

I’ve never seen a “print your own” stamp, just the ads; but if I were designing them, I’d add a barcode somewhere (to the left of the stamp?) to provide details about the stamp.

Anyone seen any? When I do a google I get the USPS site that says send us your picture and we’ll send you preprinted stamps.

I believe in the Live It Up case (sorry, CTV) they were relying on the eyeballs of the postal workers to catch these.

Yes, these stamps have 2-d barcodes on them.
An example.

[kaylasdad99]

@Exapno_Mapcase

Without a market, there’s no good reason to counterfeit stamps today. Stamps were far more omnipresent 50 or 75 years ago, but they only cost 3 cents. A few people have always tried to make this a niche but the market keeps saying that putting the crookedness into a $20 or $100 bill is a thousand times more sensible.

What if somebody made a counterfeit pane of that one with the plane flying upside down?

[Exapno_Mapcase]

@kaylasdad99

What if somebody made a counterfeit pane of that one with the plane flying upside down?

It had better be the best counterfeit ever made, because it would receive more scrutiny than any other stamp ever.

[SpoilerVirgin]

@Xema

By contrast, a pyramid scheme is generally held to mean a scheme that rewards participants principally for signing up other participants.

Don’t forget that the original Ponzi scheme was based on the sale of postal reply coupons.