Royal Mail was on Wednesday night urged to investigate what security experts called 'economic warfare', with forgeries from the Far East said to be behind the rise in fakes bought from legit sources.
Claims that four Chinese companies are printing one million fake stamps a weekThousands of fake stamps are entering Britain from China , leaving victims paying £5 penalties to collect their post.
Websites seen by the Mail based in China offer sheets of 50 counterfeit stamps at a time, complete with Royal Mail's new barcode – designed to make the post more secure and efficient – for those willing to commit to a minimum purchase of 20,000. 'The Royal Mail must do everything possible to prevent counterfeits entering our circulation and must establish where they are coming from and how they are entering our marketplace.'
READ MORE: Royal Mail finally vows to investigate fake stamp farce after hundreds of Britons were wrongly fined £5 to receive letters sent using stamps that postal service claims are 'counterfeit' He told the Telegraph: 'It is inconceivable that a large-scale counterfeit operation like this could be occurring without the knowledge and therefore tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party. It's an obvious form of economic warfare.'
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