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Royal Mail: How can you tell if a stamp is fake? Expert tips

Most stamps are verified using the service’s scanning devices at sorting offices. But “it’s a crime to knowingly use counterfeit or re-used stamps to avoid paying Royal Mail the full amount required for the Postal Service received,” reports the Royal Mail website. “Anyone who does so may potentially face criminal prosecution …

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The NHS must fulfil its duty

When the Government sold off its last remaining stake in Royal Mail in 2015, George Osborne, who was then chancellor, hailed a “milestone moment” that marked a “win all round”. Less than a decade later, with its future in doubt, the Postal Service is proposing to deliver second-class letters just …

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The insider’s guide to Balmoral for those who missed out on a £100 ticket! ROBERT HARDMAN on what it’s really like inside – and what tourists won’t see as it opens its doors for the first time…

For all the portraits, busts and fine furniture, I have no doubt that it will be the personal stuff which lingers longest in the public’s memory. As in any stately home, it is the tell-tale signs of family life — a wedding photo, perhaps, or even a trampoline in a …

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