Questions in the Lords/Commons - Royal Mail

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Royal Mail: Postage Stamps
House of Lords


Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the financial loss to Royal Mail caused by the reuse of non-cancelled and washed postage stamps over the past five years.

Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 24 September 2012, c383W)

Lord Marland (Conservative)
This is an operational matter for Royal Mail. I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of Royal Mail, Moya Greene, to respond directly to my noble friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Library of the House.

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Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to eliminate postal fraud through the resale of used postage stamps on the internet.

Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 24 September 2012, c383W)

Lord Marland (Conservative)
The Government do not have any current plans to prevent the selling of used postage stamps over the internet. The reuse of postage stamps that have been through Royal Mail is illegal and existing law provides for prosecutions.

Royal Mail monitors the sale of postage stamps on internet sites to ensure that, where necessary, vendors inform potential buyers that used postage stamps are invalid and that it is illegal to reuse such postage stamps.

The security features added to Royal Mail's postage stamps in 2009 have made potential reuse more difficult. Royal Mail will continue to look at security enhancements to help protect the company against such fraudulent activity.

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Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to require internet auction sites such as eBay to refuse to carry advertisements for the resale of used postage stamps.

Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 24 September 2012, c384W)

Lord Marland (Conservative)
The Government do not have any current plans to require internet auction sites to refuse to carry advertisements about the resale of used postage stamps.

Royal Mail monitors the sale of postage stamps over the internet to ensure that, where necessary, vendors inform potential buyers that used postage stamps are invalid and that it is illegal to reuse such postage stamps.

Royal Mail will, if necessary, take legal action against vendors who continue to sell used postage stamps for reuse.

[Lounge Lizard]

Don't those lords asking questions about "the selling of used postage stamps" realise that that's always been big business for stamp dealers making a living from philatelists and that the issue now isn't "the selling of used postage stamps" but the selling of UNCANCELLED used postage stamps ?

[Mr Rush]

You hardly see any cancelled stamps these days. If The Sun wants a real story about a jobsworth they can watch me score through every non-cancelled 1st class stamp I see on delivery

[Stormproof]

Don't these pillocks know we have a lot more to worry about than poxy used stamps. If I were them I'd be more worried about RM losing money to this postage