# Fraudulent articles (fictitious or reused postage) — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Fraudulent articles (fictitious or reused postage), carrier is Royal Mail / Parcelforce; restriction type is prohibited; scope is UK and International; conditions is Items bearing fictitious postage stamps or franking impressions, previously used postage, or bundles of postal items addressed to different people at different addresses are prohibited, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Item category:** Fraudulent articles (fictitious or reused postage) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** Royal Mail / Parcelforce _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** prohibited _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** UK and International _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Items bearing fictitious postage stamps or franking impressions, previously used postage, or bundles of postal items addressed to different people at different addresses are prohibited. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Items bearing fictitious postage stamp or franking machine impression. Any item on which there is a stamp or franking machine impression which has been previously used to pre-pay any postal item.

## Source

- https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/media/w5dlus1c/foia-response_foi2025_00179_appendix-d_rm-dangerous-goods-and-prohibited-and-restricted.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).