2FABE – the 'secret' international travel postcard stamp code?

8/14/2016 6:42:14 AM

The best explanation for this phenomenon I’ve found is this:

For your information, most of the postcards that are being sent with “student to student” recommendation from your website that arrive get a circled black ‘T’ letter stamp on them which means “postage is due” and that destination should pay it. This means that the receiver of such mail might have to pay not just the due postage but as well as a small fine. Unfortunately, mail services have costs on applying such fee to the receiver and often do not do it – the fee would have to be returned to the originating country anyway, and they don’t always enforce this.

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5/5/2012 2:43:03 PM

I’d propose the “null hypothesis” that 2FABE has no special meaning, but that postal services may just handle postcards that don’t have postage, either because they don’t really check, or as a “tourist-friendly” policy.

One could test this by sending a bunch of postcards, some marked 2FABE, some marked with other random sequences of characters, and some with no markings at all (and perhaps some more with cartoons of the Queen). If significantly more of the 2FABE cards arrive than the others, then you have some reason to think there is something special about 2FABE, and could investigate further. It might be best to mail the postcards to and from a variety of addresses, so that they don’t attract attention by all being processed or delivered together.

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