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It is strange that a person would receive a fine for receiving a letter with a "counterfeit" stamp. That would make for a very nasty revenge operation - send yo
by Ajay-p 3y ago
It is strange that a person would receive a fine for receiving a letter with a "counterfeit" stamp. That would make for a very nasty revenge operation - send your worst enemy letters with counterfeit stamps to cause them to incur a five pound fine.
- ct0 3y agosame goes for bad checks, the person cashing it pays a returned check fee!
- HackerLemon 3y agoYou don't have to pay it. It's only payable if you want to receive the letter.
- Leynos 3y agoThe problem is that there is no way of knowing what the letter is. All you get is a slip through your door saying an item of mail is waiting for you and has a £5 fee to pay. If you're like me, you pay the fee, fearful that it might be something important.
- datascienced 3y agoYeah it could be a speeding fine caused by a faulty detector after all!
- dnh44 3y agoAt my local depot they allow you to see what the item is before you decide to pay or not.
- toast0 3y agoFrom the article, sounds like the recipient can pay the fine and get the mail, or not pay the fine and not get the mail. Maybe it'll get returned to sender, for insufficient postage? Maybe it'll be destroyed?
- chrisjj 3y agoIt is not a fine. It is a fee for optional delivery.
- justinclift 3y agoUgh. It's kind of blackmail then. :( "Pay us $ (even though legally you don't have to), otherwise we'll be keeping and/or destroying your stuff".
- chrisjj 3y agoTechnically not blackmail. Extortion :)
- justinclift 3y agoAhhh, good point. :)
- bregma 3y agoIt may depend on what's in that envelope.
- chrisjj 3y agoTrue, but no competant blackmailer would put the threat beind a paywall :)
- pacaro 3y agoIt's unlikely that it will be returned to sender. In the UK it is uncommon to write the senders address on the mail piece, and even if a sender address is procided, how do you know that the sender information is accurate?
- jerrre 3y agonext level operation: put your enemies' address as sender (not legal advice)
- kypro 3y agoYou pay the fine if want the post. You don't legally have to pay. Presumably it works like this because they can't always identify who sent the letter.
- chrisjj 3y ago> Presumably it works like this because they can't always identify who sent the letter. Not to mention that this way targets the person that is far more likely to pay, and far less likely to challenge a false counterfeit charge.