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the lesson here is you do not fuck with the us postal inspector's service because they do not lose

i'm reading the opposite interpretation. how did they miss this? how much fraud is still active? you have to assume it's 100x what they've identified

If you look at page 12 here (https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2026-09/...) the USPS estimates 30,000,000 fraudulent labels are/were used per month. The accused sold 5 million labels via Labelsbank.com over a ~2 year period (https://web.archive.org/web/20240326164928/https://labelsban...). That's ~208,000/m so his scam would represent 0.7% of fraudulent labels.

These numbers are rough but there you go. Your intuition is correct. Roughly 100X.

moreover, their topline 30e6 estimate is likely underestimating the amount of fraud. most likely there is 2-3 x.

One reason why, is that no civil person would consider it ( hence a lot of the pushback ). It's a prime target!

general rule of them with anomaly detection. great work and thanks for the research here!