Postman made fake stamps and postage labels to sell online

HE WAS RUMBLED BY ROYAL MAIL

- By MARK NAYLOR [e-mail] @GTMarkNaylor

A POSTMAN ran his own cut-price stamp selling service by making hundreds of fake stamps and postage labels to sell online to customers in a brazen bid to make some easy money.

Lee Whitehead was initially caught out and interviewed about the matter but he shamelessly carried on his do-it-yourself stamps service as though nothing had happened, Hull Crown Court heard.

Whitehead, 53, of Rockley Court, Hull, admitted offering to sell items for use in fraud and supplying articles including stamps for use in fraud between June 26, 2023 and March 15 last year. He also admitted having custody or control of false stamps and PPI labels in a parcel seized outside his home on February 2 this year after it was sent to him.