Cancelling the stamp.

[Gold Fox]

Cencell or not ... make no difference ... these stamps are " TAMPER-PROOF " ... can not be peel off from postal items.

[SpacePhoenix]

Cencell or not ... make no difference ... these stamps are " TAMPER-PROOF " ... can not be peel off from postal items.

No they're not

http://www.mercianlabels.com/blog/2009/ ... ve-stamps/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[wabbithunta]

Cencell or not ... make no difference ... these stamps are " TAMPER-PROOF " ... can not be peel off from postal items.

No they're not

http://www.mercianlabels.com/blog/2009/ ... ve-stamps/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also some people cut them off the old envelope and then trim them up to try and make it harder to spot when reapplied to a new envelope and apart from that the fact that they feel thicker on the envelope is a giveaway!

Anything to get away with paying and it ends up costing the addressee in the end via a surcharged item!

[cazspence]

I had a huge amount of letter last night from a company that had cut out the front of a book of stamps and tried to use that, along with lots of reused stamps been cut around from envelopes. Seriously..a company!!

[Caniel]

I cancel stamps on my delivery. There now appears to be a lot of letters passing through our office with reused stamps on then and a lot of these go to a prison nearby. These are also either glued on or stuck down with something akin to tippex or suchlike as well as some of them being sellotaped on and the people who send these use any manner of method to make them stick to the envelope. Some stamps have been either peeled off from old envelopes, as you can see the remains of it on the back of the stamp or just cut out from the previously used envelope, sadly for these people they unfortunately have a tendency to "fall off" when being sorted and end up being surcharged anyway as the stamps are reused.
And then there's issue of envelopes that are pre-stamped.. ie have the TNT/UKMail, or whoever else has their ident on them. We're starting to see a lot of these being reused. They look like they've been carefully opened up allowing them to reuse the envelopes. The problem with these is that they don't have a date on them so you've no way of telling when they were actually sent. If they look dodgy I cancel them by writing the date across the TNT/UKMail ident or who ever else has their "mark" there.

You could, and maybe should, pass all the envelopes with reused stamps on to Revenue Protection.

This is what happens at my office, they go into a yellow perstop box and onto Revenue Protection. It works because when I've put some from my delivery in there two days later a grey card arrives with the same address.

To be honest though they should be getting cancelled at the mail centre, by the machine or the hand stampers if there is still any.

[redheadedwoman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[redheadedwoman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[SpacePhoenix]

To be honest though they should be getting cancelled at the mail centre, by the machine or the hand stampers if there is still any.

They're supposed to be done on late shifts but I doubt that many late shifts around the country have got the staff available to cancel them

[redheadedwoman]

We do the ones not cancelled on our early shift by running them through a SCM.It can vary from 1500-3500 items depending on the traffic.

[Decky Boy]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40

Wow... I hope revenue protection are looking into this