Australia Post has been left red-faced after an "embarrassing" mistake led to some customers being sent out custom stamps missing an essential detail.
has been left red-faced after an "embarrassing" mistake led to some customers being sent out custom stamps missing an essential detail.
David ordered 2000 custom-made stamps from Australia Post's MyStamp service for his collectables business on April 4.READ MORE: The non-compliant stamps missing the dollar sign and a previous version including the essential character. When the sheets of $1.50 stamps arrived in the mail, David said he didn't notice anything amiss and began using them.
"You would think that after so many years of having these stamps that there would be quality control and yet this slipped through for almost a month - it's kind of crazy.Australia Post has blamed a system error for producing "non-compliant" stamps for some customers. "A printing error resulted in a small number of personalised stamps being misprinted," an Australia Post spokesperson said in a statement.
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