This post and its comments will hold all news on Post and Go stamps, machines, and PO Self Service Kiosks (SSKs).
For details of new Post and Go stamps issued by the postal authorities in Guernsey and Jersey I recommend WhiteKnight's Commonwealth Stamp Opinion. All issues from the islands, and Gibraltar and the SOAR stamps from Isle of Man and Ireland will normally be pictured there as announced.
Anything about the old Royal Mail machines and any later news for PO SSKs will continue to be added on the 2024 blog post. Please continue to make comments there or send me news/images by email.
Self-Service Kiosks
All readers and collectors should be indebted to Malcolm, Trevor and a few other people for their continued perambulations around the country reporting on the rapidly diminishing estate of Self-Service Kiosks in Post Office branches.
These will continue to throw up errors and surprises and they will be reported here either as comments or, if significant enough, as edits to this original post.
The reducing number of machines in use means that the large stocks of Queen Elizabeth Machin blanks will be spread even more thinly and take longer to use up, especially as branches now offer different service, such as Tracked24/48 or Evri, DPD, etc as alternatives to Royal Mail services.
Whereas the casual poster of packets might have visited the SSK they may now think twice (if the queues are not too long) and use a counter service.
So to start this year off with a picture last week, I don't know when this fault occurred at Cheltenham (WHSmith) PO. The black ink is missing in the centre, leaving 2nd class short of an s and truncating the datastring. The base stock is CL16S. Thanks to JG and his friend for supplying this.
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| Machine fault causing omission of some of the black inscription on 2nd class (CL16S) stamps at Cheltenham PO. |
All news about P&G in 2025 will be here, and comments for the old (January 2024) post have been closed. If you have any late news for 2024 please email it to me at the usual address and I will add it.
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