USPS Oig Report On Counterfeit Stamps 16 June 2026

The whole point is that relevant is now in the eyes of the beholder. But I still don't see it happening. This problem is about number 10000 on the list of current issues to be addressed.

"yet it gives postal investigators exact details about when and where the package was shipped from, which they could then monitor for future shipments and nab the seller. Sounds easy, or maybe this only works in the movies."

It doesn't give the shipper's address, just the PO they took it to. And again, how do they know what packages to track?

"They just have not done it. It's also not true that the USPS can't identify counterfeits in the mail stream. They can and do. That's how the have put a number on lost revenue."

What they likely have done is sample some mail and then take those statistics to get an estimate. Or they could have simply compared the number of stamped letters sent and compared it to the number of stamps sold and found more letters are being mailed than stamps sold and decided the difference is the counterfeit quantity. Or a combination of those methods. It doesn't mean they have a large scale ability to ID fakes.

edited to add I hadn't yet read down to what revcollector wrote 13 hours ago of a similar nature.

I did ask on another chat board with a long thread about the UK and was told that the number of counterfeits was down since they introduced bard codes.