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Royal Mail will temporarily waive £5 penalties levied on people who collect post with counterfeit stamps as it introduces measures to tackle the problem.
In response to concerns about a rise in fake stamps after a switch to a barcode-based system, Royal Mail said it would suspend the fine for those who received post bearing bogus stamps.
The postal service said it was developing a new counterfeit stamp scanner in the Royal Mail app to allow customers to check whether the barcodes are recognised as counterfeit. Stickers also will be applied to items to advise recipients that a stamp has been scanned as counterfeit. The company said it would increase efforts to charge the sender of items posted with a counterfeit stamp, rather than the
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