ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani national has been charged with defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) of $126 million by selling counterfeit postage labels online, it emerged on Friday.
According to a press release by the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida, issued on Monday on the website of the Department of Justice (DOJ), a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Pakistani national, a 33-year-old from Khanewal, with operating “an unauthorised website that allegedly sold more than five million counterfeit US postage labels”.
According to court records, these were sold at a fixed rate, “typically $2 per label”, regardless of the size, weight or destination of the package in question. This allowed customers to post items for cheap at rates “far below legitimate USPS prices”.
The statement also pointed out that the website used for this purpose was not authorised to sell USPS products and services.
The investigation revealed that over 5,200 individuals used the website to buy more than 5.1m counterfeit shipping labels. The losses caused to the service as a result were reported to be over $126m, the press release highlighted.
“Through the work of the US Postal Inspection Service and our prosecutors, the website has been shut down, the domain seized, and federal charges brought against its alleged operator,” US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the southern district of Florida said, according to the press release.
Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2026
