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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc,talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Stamp Question
- Message-ID: <7918@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:58:05 GMT
- References: <BxJp7w.4oJ@cen.ex.ac.uk> <7906@skye.ed.ac.uk> <BxM02M.Ax5@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- In article <BxM02M.Ax5@cck.coventry.ac.uk> lsg001@cck.coventry.ac.uk
- (Graham Wilson) writes:
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- # Although many of the stamp collecting companies are genuine and do sell
- # the stamps abroad, there are several companies who use this method to
- # defraud the post office. The stamps are placed into chemicals which
- # disolve the glue and allow the stamps to float free of the envelope
- # backing. They are then placed into solvent which removes the franking
- # mark from the front. The stamps are then re-glued and look like they
- # are new.
- #
- # The company concerned then offers cheap bulk mailing of junk mail to
- # large national companies.
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- A philatelist of my acquaintance tells me that the mail order firms
- involved could have made roughly the same saving quite legally by buying
- up sheets of outdated special issue stamps at auction!
-
- stickily, Ken Johnson
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