• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    I am confused how the QR code was supposed to stop forgery. I have never seen anyone scan the code at any point in the process so I don’t understand how it was supposed to help.

    I’ve scanned the code myself and it’s just a number sequence. Unless you’re checking that against some sort of database, which I assume is the idea, then the existence of the number sequence itself proves nothing. But as I have said I’ve never seen anyone actually scan the damn things. I don’t even understand who’s supposed to do it.

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      6 months ago

      They’re scanned by the sorting equipment. When a stamp is issued with a particular number that number can then be used exactly once, at least in theory.

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        6 months ago

        They already had a perfectly good method for preventing stamps from being used more than once which was to stamp them. But sometimes they fail to do that too.