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Fake stamps carry mail every day. That is until they don't; then hope it was not your tax, mortgage, car or credit card payment. USPS says they have no obligation to deliver mail with fraudulent stamps NOR an obligation to return the mail matter to the sender.
To be fair, what percentage of people do you think are making payments of those items via snail mail anymore vs. ACH or other online methods? I'm betting less than 20%.
Regardless, the odds of letters/parcels being stopped and given sufficient scrutiny to determine whether the stamps are genuine are extremely low. You cannot tell "at a glance" real from fake. It takes close examination under magnification, with diagnostic point specifics, or UV light exposure in a dark room with the knowledge of what genuine tagging looks like vs. nongenuine.
Both of those options are labor sinks at a time when USPS is stretched thin with respect to employee bandwidth.
I'm not condoning the use, but rather I don't think the disincentive is what you think it is, at least currently...
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