Greetings everybody, we're back from Ireland where the weather was much better than it has been, and remains, here in the UK. A taste of this was the yellow alert issued for the eastern side of Northern Ireland after we sailed to Scotland on Wednesday, and what we had for a considerable time in Co Durham and the north east yesterday which continues today- after a sunny interlude across Lincolnshire yesterday afternoon - in Norfolk.
It's happened before that important announcements are made when we take a break, so this is a quick acknowledgement to the many people who have written in the last three weeks.
The following topics will be covered in blog posts soon:
- September slogan postmarks
- Postage rate increase meaning a new airmail rate stamp (and Royal Mail have confirmed that there will be no more airmail rate country definitives.
- outstanding orders: sorry I forgot to shut the shop so a few orders have been delayed.
- forgeries and how Royal Mail is dealing with them
- amazingly incorrect information being supplied by Post Office branches including Crown Offices. (You don't have to use old stamps before the price increase!)
- I'll also be writing about blog comments which have not been published. Comments must be relevant to the post they are on.
- the person who wrote about Universal Mail will get a reply eventually!
