Online postage stamp scam lasting FOREVER

         If you can’t trust Facebook, who can you trust?

         I’m serious. OK. Halfway serious. It’s about the advertisements.

         My FB account is replete with ads for what must be counterfeit postage stamps. Or maybe they’re real stamps that never get delivered. Prices are slashed.

         I reported one suspicious stamp purveyor to Facebook – better said to Meta, the company doing business as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That was two days ago. I’m still getting stamp ads – more than ever.

         I’m thinking about buying some. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em.

         I jest. I just wanted to say that.

         In my letter carrier days, we took stamps seriously. If a stamp escaped cancellation, the directive to us carriers was to cancel the postage with our ballpoints. We did. Otherwise, people like my mother would have been illegally inclined to reuse an uncancelled stamp.