Lousy Electronic Stamp Security in Germany
More and more, we’re seeing electronic postage stamps: stamps you can print directly onto envelopes from your printer. This story from Germany illustrates some of the problems when security collides with convenience.
David in Chicago • September 11, 2007 8:02 AM
IIRC, stamps.com and other US electronic postage vendors have a strong incentive to get it right. The USPS charges them for each stamp of theirs the system processes. If their security isn’t good enough to go back to the customer who bought the stamp, it’s not the postal service’s problem. Once again, economics does its job.