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Originally Posted by Notorial dissent
Incidently, putting a signature over a stamp could be considered franking, and unless you are by law entitled to do so can be considered a criminal act and is prosecutable.
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This reminds me of Judge Roy Bean spinning an arrest in California and trying to say that stamping one's checks with the verbiage will land one in jail.
The Franking Priviliage, as it is called, is reserved (in the united States of America government) to Congressmen/women. Used only for official business, all one congressman/woman as to do is sign their name in the upper right corner of an envelope and presto, it is mailed for free! They have the
privilage to use the mail at no cost to them. Franking is done so that
no stamp is used. By using a stamp, Franking does not exist. If anything, one has just pre-cancelled their on stamp by writing on it.
Please do not insult our intelligence again ND. Many of us here can see right through scare-tactics and propaganda.