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My father does this... incessantly. He has stacks of stamps he uses to send out for work and he gets them all at major discount on ebay. It turns out the post
by calvinmorrison 4y ago
My father does this... incessantly. He has stacks of stamps he uses to send out for work and he gets them all at major discount on ebay.
It turns out the post office, mostly doesn't actually care to count up the 1 and 2 cent stamps.
There's a group of hobbyists committing felonies out there making their own stamps and sending them out. The post office doesn't notice.
One sillier trick was, forget a stamp, it'll get returned to sender. Simply put your destination as the return and you get a free mailer.
- Scoundreller 4y agoAt least I hear USPS really cares about weight. In Canada... not so much.
- selimthegrim 4y agoI have definitely gotten mail with a postage due ink stamp so they count at least the absence of them
- _vdpp 4y ago“Mail hacking” was a thing. I forget the name they gave it but read an article in 2600 or Phrack some time ago that talked about some of the tricks like the one you mentioned. The only other one I remember was to put a smear of Vaseline in the corner where stamps normally go. It was enough to trick the sorting machine.