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How royal garden parties always steal the show: From the Queen being heard saying Chinese aides were ‘very rude’ in 2015 state visit… to Kate and Sophie’s coordinated ensembles – as the King attends party at Buckingham Palace
Byadmin May 10, 2024

[ad_1] The Buckingham Palace garden party is one of the most prestigious invitations of the season. Established by Queen Victoria in the 1860s as twice-yearly ‘breakfasts’ presenting debutantes into society, the afternoon events took full advantage of the nation’s new-found obsession with tea-drinking. Today, the sovereign hosts two summer garden parties at Buckingham Palace and one at…

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First class decision! Royal Mail ditches controversial £5 fines on letters using ‘fake’ stamps
Byadmin April 29, 2024

[ad_1] Charge dropped until at least July while app to highlight fakes is developed Customers will be able to scan stamp barcodes to check if they are genuine Experts warn this will not help elderly customers who rely on service to pay bills By Adele Cooke Published: 20:09 EDT, 29 April 2024 | Updated: 20:18…

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Royal Mail to temporarily waive £5 fines for post carrying counterfeit stamps – The Irish News
Byadmin April 29, 2024

[ad_1] Royal Mail is to temporarily waive £5 penalties for members of the public to collect post with counterfeit stamps as it introduces measures to tackle the problem. The company announced it is developing a new counterfeit stamp scanner in the Royal Mail app to allow customers to scan stamp barcodes and check whether it…

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Drop £5 fine for fake ‘Chinese’ stamps, minister urges Royal Mail
Byadmin April 28, 2024

[ad_1] Mr Hollinrake wrote: “You will be aware of concerns being expressed by parliamentary colleagues about the £5 surcharge being applied, where a number of them have claimed that they have bought stamps from legitimate sources, but which have then been identified as counterfeit by your system. “I recognise that where fake stamps have been…

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Counterfeit stamp fines must be suspended, Royal Mail told
Byadmin April 15, 2024

[ad_1] Meanwhile Baroness Altmann, vice chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Consumer Protection, said the law should be changed so that only the Post Office can sell stamps. The former pensions minister said: “We actually got caught out by that last year. My uncle had his birthday last summer and he sent out, the…

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Do you know how to spot a fake stamp? As Royal Mail is accused ‘passing the buck’ to the Border Force after a flood of cheap Chinese copies into Britain, here’s how you can tell you have the real dealgoes here
Byadmin April 12, 2024

[ad_1] By Adele Cooke Money Mail Reporter Published: 17:32 EDT, 12 April 2024 | Updated: 17:38 EDT, 12 April 2024 Border Force has promised a crackdown on fake stamps after Royal Mail accused it of failing to stop counterfeit versions entering Britain from China. The Home Office said that Border Force will take ‘concerted action’…

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Our machines can mistake genuine stamps for fakes, Royal Mail executive admits
Byadmin April 12, 2024

[ad_1] An executive at Royal Mail said: “When letters arrive at the mail centre, they all go through the system and the barcode is read. If the barcode comes up as suspicious it is rejected and goes into a separate channel for further checks. “A revenue protection person will then inspect the item using specialist…

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Royal Mail is a symbol of British failure, where the inept are rewarded and the innocent pay
Byadmin April 12, 2024

[ad_1] Royal Mail has been playing the blame game for quite some time now. When the beleaguered company’s former chief executive Simon Thompson appeared in front of the business, energy and industrial strategy committee in March 2023, he pointed the finger at rogue workers carrying tracking devices, which he later admitted were used to pressure…

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Royal Mail accuses Border Force of failing to stop fake stamps from China
Byadmin April 11, 2024

[ad_1] Alicia Kearns, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, demanded the Chinese state launch an investigation and crack down on factories “brazenly” producing the counterfeits. She said: “It is incumbent upon the Chinese state to now crack down on these companies who are openly supporting illicit trade in stamps, investigate printing facilities and expose those…

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China behind flood of fake stamps plaguing Britain
Byadmin April 11, 2024

[ad_1] The Royal Mail introduced barcode stamps in 2022 in an effort to put a stop to forgeries that were costing the postal service tens of millions of pounds every year. The barcodes are scanned when post arrives at sorting offices and suspicious stamps are then inspected by staff who then declare if the stamp…

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