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Nice try, but Nah, thats only to prevent counterfeiting online
Why Is “Forever” Crossed Out on Postage Stamp Images?
You can buy a stamp and scan it. Did everyone forget about scanners?
You can also photoshop the thin line out, or ask an AI to remove it.
The whooping 160 thousand dollars in counterfeit stamps leading to a change in how the entire USPS marketing material reads like a plain joke.
I mean... 160 THOUSAND dollars in not-valid "currency"! Can the US economy ever recover from this?
Which will likely leave metadata which will tell the post office exactly where the original stamp was sold.
The cross isn't needed anymore because each stamp has a unique ID printed on it.
Where? I don’t believe you.
Where what? The cross is right there.
The unique ID? The metadata?
I'm not familiar with it. The ID is printed multiple times in U.V. ink. Presumably each stamp is additionally distorted more.
Im asking for a source. I just checked the forever stamps in my desk with a uv light and there is no secret printing.
Apparently a line through the text defeats the latest and greatest in scanning technology #sarcasm lol
If this is the genuine reason, that is such a weird way to do that. It's not even hard to overlay a new text over a text that has a blank background. Ffs.
Agreed I really had no idea this was a thing till searching about it. Absolutely assinine but tracks with the current folks in charge
Then why have they only crossed out that one word?
Eitherway, I am enjoying this shit show.
I have no explanation for any of this…just another weird event in a series of shit as you pointed out lol