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How to tell if your stamp is a fake

The charity commission is asking charities to stop collecting used postage stamps unless they know exactly where they鈥檙e going. It鈥檚 because the stamps are being washed to remove the franking marks and then sold online by criminal gangs. People are being caught out when using counterfeit stamps without realising they're fake. Winifred Robinson finds out how to tell if you've bought a fake stamp.

First broadcast on You & Yours, 3 December 2018.

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