They said it’s for blocking duplication and knockoffs lol if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell.
birdele on
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works
Splint17 on
Our predecessors need better guidance.
gerowen on
The actual stamp you buy doesn’t; they just cross it out in images they share to try and make it a little harder to just print them.
12kdaysinthefire on
The actual stamps don’t have the word crossed out. They’ve been crossing out parts of advertised stamps since before 2014.
Dizzymama107 on
How does crossing out ‘forever’ stop counterfeiting? Couldn’t the counterfeiters just… cross it out on theirs too? This is the first time I’m even hearing about counterfeit stamps lol.
TravelTheWorldDan on
It’s only crossed out online in photos to prevent counterfeiting. Not when you actually purchase them. Which is stupid anyways. Because if I was counterfeiting them, I would just get a legitimate one and scan it on a high definition scanner.
justaheatattack on
who the fuck is buying a thousand stamps?
Vegetable-Abaloney on
I think they’re acknowledging that the stamp is not ‘forever’. I received a wedding invite from a relative that used a forever stamp and the PO made me pay an additional 8 cents to get the mail because the forever postage was somehow not enough.
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Interesting. I mean why in the world would they design it with that line on it??
Anti counterfeiting.
It’s to stop counterfeiting?
[https://www.stampsforever.com/resources/why-is-forever-crossed-out-on-postage-stamps](https://www.stampsforever.com/resources/why-is-forever-crossed-out-on-postage-stamps)
They said it’s for blocking duplication and knockoffs lol if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell.
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works
Our predecessors need better guidance.
The actual stamp you buy doesn’t; they just cross it out in images they share to try and make it a little harder to just print them.
The actual stamps don’t have the word crossed out. They’ve been crossing out parts of advertised stamps since before 2014.
How does crossing out ‘forever’ stop counterfeiting? Couldn’t the counterfeiters just… cross it out on theirs too? This is the first time I’m even hearing about counterfeit stamps lol.
It’s only crossed out online in photos to prevent counterfeiting. Not when you actually purchase them. Which is stupid anyways. Because if I was counterfeiting them, I would just get a legitimate one and scan it on a high definition scanner.
who the fuck is buying a thousand stamps?
I think they’re acknowledging that the stamp is not ‘forever’. I received a wedding invite from a relative that used a forever stamp and the PO made me pay an additional 8 cents to get the mail because the forever postage was somehow not enough.