When the Royal Mail Post and Go machines went to the 85th Scottish Congress at Perth, another software error occurred on machine 3 resulting in the date showing as November instead of April.
The receipts show the date as 11/11/2014 but more importantly the data string shows BNGB14 rather than B4GB14. These were spotted on eBay and it seems that the error was soon corrected. (See here, closing 4 June.)
As readers will know we didn't get any stock of the Perth Congress stamps.
UPDATE 20 May
Thanks to Joachim we can now show a scan with the last stamp with string BNGB14 (session 779; time
13:20:13) and the first stamp with string B4GB14 (session 780; time
13:25:39).
Miscellany part 2 - Martock, Sandford, Wellington, Street, Saltford
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This Martock Parcel Post Label was used in August 1901 and has a handstruck
"4" for the price. This was the Parcel Rate for 1-2 lb between June 1897
and...
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