Many people are being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps
Mike Parry says he was hit with a Royal Mail reprimand after being sold a counterfeit stamp at his local newsagents.
An investigation by GB News in January found books of stamps bought directly from the Post Office were deemed “counterfeit”.
Mike Parry spoke out on The People's Channel about becoming one of the scandal's many victims when he tried to send off a payment to the bank. Speaking on GB News he said: "I've been a victim of this terrible scandal. I still pay some of my bills by paper because I prefer to have control
"I don't want people hacking into my computers all the time so I send a cheque in the post. Let me tell you, I sent a cheque in the post to Barclaycard.
"On the day when you're supposed to pay your bill, you get a little text message saying you may wish to pay before midnight tonight. I thought this couldn't be happening, I sent it three weeks ago.
"I got on to Barclaycard. They said we haven't had your payment and it was a couple of thousand quid or something and I thought, this is very strange.
"So I made arrangements to pay and then the following morning, I got a letter from my local post office to say you have been using forged stamps on your mail.
"So we have therefore not only have we not delivered them, we've informed the authorities you're putting forged stamps on it. And then I had to pay something like £4.80 for the benefit of them coming back to me."
Bev said: "Where did you buy the forged stamps from?" And Parry replied: "I bought mine in my local newsagents, but the story this morning says they came direct from the post office and the people who manufacture them."
He later added: "The cost of stamps these days now anyway is an outrage. It is an outrage. When I was a kid it was about £0.05 or £0.06.
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