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Pay just ONE cent each from China. able to entice customers to his business and away from his competitors because the free postage made his products cheaper, creating an unfair playing field” he continued. “We also allege this conduct put his customers at risk of not receiving the goods they purchased in good faith, with Australia Post needing to intercept and hold hundreds of mail items that had counterfeit
stamps. This crime also siphons money away from Australian taxpayers, because Australia Post is owned by the Commonwealth Government.” Berston concluded. Approximately 680 mail items bearing these alleged fake stamps, valued at approximately $2,300 face value, were detected by the Australia Post mail Centre operations, but it is unknown how many items with forged stamps had been sent out in the past by Mr. Balcombe. The crooks do not realise the genuine AP stamps have ‘’tagging’’ that is detected in the high-tech mail sorting equipment these days! Meanwhile across the country in Sydney, a married couple appeared in court in December, charged over an alleged $2 million fake Australia Post satchel scam. Just a year after their flashy wedding, when they zoomed away in a pricey Maserati sports car, Damien Steven Butler, 30, and wife Dannielle, allegedly took part in a huge Australia Post parcel satchel scam. The married couple have been accused of being part in a syndicate which allegedly imported about 2.3 tons of counterfeit pre-paid Australia Post parcel satchels. Damien Steven Butler, 30, and three others were charged in July 2020, after allegedly ordering tons of the fake Express Post and Parcel Post packages made in China, and selling them on eBay between September 2018, and June 2019.
2.3 TON of counterfeit PO satchels.
The criminal operation cost Australia Post a stated $2 million in lost revenue, the Australian Federal Police allege. (Doubtless many times that.) Mr Butler was charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime in excess of $100,000, and causing loss to a Commonwealth entity. Now his wife Dannielle, 28, Stamp News - 57