As reported on 17 July the new tariff stamps from the spring, originally printed by Walsall with year code M13L were later printed by De La Rue with year code MA13 as intended.
At that time we had the 78p with a printing date of 24/04/13, but we now know that - despite this being an low demand surface-mail rate stamp - DLR started printing even this value before they had the inkjet attachment working, and thus the sheets also exist with no sheet number or printing date. You can buy these here.
Parcels Post introduction in August 1883 according to The Illustrated
London News
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The UPU agreed an international parcel post service in a conference in
Paris on 9th October 1880 for establishment on 1st October 1881. The
service was ...

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