Fellow SOR members:

This afternoon at work, an advertisement popped-up on my computer screen from the home page of MSN. It advertised current USPS stamps at 50% off. Hmmmm, no postal administration in the world does that. I clicked on the link and was presented with what looked like a VERY good representation of something official from USPS. It listed all the stamps from the past three years for sale, and a nice order form.

I checked out the contact information. Contact us by texting this phone number. An odd number. In my previous career, I was a cellular telephone repair technician for Rogers Wireless. I know a lot about phone numbers, etc. and didn't like what I saw.

I phoned the R.C.M.P. The Constable I spoke to then asked me to phone a gentleman at the U.S. Embassy, here in Ottawa. He was a nice man from the FBI. He directed me to the USPIS (United States Postal Inspection Service) fraud dept. and instructed me to send an e-mail. I did so.

Half-an-hour later I received a nice e-mail from the USPIS thanking me for alerting them.

I figure, based upon the phone number I saw, that the source was somewhere in Eastern Europe. Bastards. Having served in the Canadian Army, the U.S. is a NATO ally. Help out where you can, folks.


David Giles
Retail Manager
Chris Green Stamps
Ottawa, Ont. Canada