Ineffective Package Tracking Facilitates Fraud

This article discusses an e-commerce fraud technique in the UK. Because the Royal Mail only tracks packages to the postcode—and not to the address – it’s possible to commit a variety of different frauds. Tracking systems that rely on signature are not similarly vulnerable.

Tags: fraud, mail, tracking

Posted on September 25, 2019 at 6:01 AM • 13 Comments

Postman Pat • September 25, 2019 7:28 AM

For those unfamiliar with the UK postcode system, it is pretty fine grained. From Wikipedia:

“The postcode unit is two characters added to the end of the postcode sector. A postcode unit generally represents a street, part of a street, a single address, a group of properties, a single property, a sub-section of the property, an individual organisation or a subsection of the organisation.”

As you see, it can be more accurate than a standard address. Here in Australia a postcode usually represents a whole town. Sometimes two towns. No, I have no idea how that works either.