"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message
If you try to copy and reuse postage, be prepared to get a very
unwanted visit from the Postal Inspection Service.

Those Stamps.com fancy barcodes are a serial number and check codes
for that particular 'stamp', just like the serial number and 'check
features' on a twenty dollar bill are a way to verify authenticity and
trace it. And they do track them - the high speed scanners on the
sorters make it easy.

And just like the Secret Service and counterfeit Twenties, if they
see the same stamp serial number come through more than once they will
be VERY interested in tracking it to the source.

-- Bruce --


Just kidding. I asked a cousin/mail-person if the PO raised rates to cover
storage costs and she got all ****y and said: "How else can you send a
letter from New York to California for just a penny a day?"