Post and Go to change following The Postal Museum brand launch
On Monday 1 February 2015, the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) will launch its new brand to the public and
officially change its name to The Postal Museum.As part of this rebrand, the overprint on the BPMA’s Post and Go will change to reflect the new name, featuring the new logo and the words ‘The Postal Museum’. This will also take place on 1 February and appear on the Machin, Union Flag and Heraldic Lion designs. Products featuring the new overprint will be available from the online shop reflecting this important development in the organisation’s history.
The first special issue of Post and Go stamps to feature the new branding will be the Postal Heritage Vehicles issue from 17 February.
Stamps are available from the foyer at Freeling House during standard opening hours. Please check postalheritage.org.uk for more information.
UPDATE 24 January 2016
As a result of the rebranding the Museum's permanent special postmark will also change. The BPMA handstamp will be available until 31 January 2016. The Postal Museum handstamp will be in use from 1 February 2016. Both are obtainable from the London Special Handstamp Centre, Mount Pleasant (just around the corner from the Museum). The reference number will be unchanged at 9568
Time certainly flies but here it goes backwards...! Slight typo - should be 1 Feb 2016.
ReplyDeleteSend IB a cheque with that date on and he'd soon notice!
DeleteAll the reports of this including BPMA's own website give the date as 1st February 2015. You would think the BPMA would get this right unless we have all missed it.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see what the logo will consist of.
I must stop relying on these official press releases!
DeleteAt least this time I had the sense to include the PR date at the top of the posting±
It seems strange that they are not havin a special overprint for Royal Mail 500. I think the rebranding after the Portsmouth issues last autumn will not impress collectors.
ReplyDeleteJohn Embrey
Well John, one way to advertise the new name - and remind us that we now have a Postal Museum not a set of initials - is to change the branding. I think it is right.
DeleteI suspect they will do something for Royal Mail 500 during the year when they actually have a Royal Mail 500 exhibition at the Museum. If they phase it they can use six different solo-design Post and Go stamps in sequence through the year!
As for the Portmsouth changes: if the had got it right in the first place instead of using meaningless initials, the change would not have been necessary.
Right on this page there's a link to the latest entry in the BPMA blog, which puts the Great Fire of London in 1966. What's a few centuries between friends?
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see if the Postal Museum (BPMA) have the complete set of six designs for the Postal Heritage Vehicles issue on the 17th February. As far as I can recall the BPMA has only had the two stamp design sets from Christmas 2014 and 2015 and single designs from sets such as the Robin from Garden Birds, the Poppy from Symbolic Flowers and the Lion from Heraldic Beasts.
ReplyDeleteThey had all six designs but first class strips only (or singles)
DeleteNow is it the Isle of Wight Postal Museum, the Both Postal Museum or the Colne Valley Postal Museum?
ReplyDeleteJohn Embrey
I don't know why they couldn't have called it the National Postal Museum, as in many other countries.
DeleteI guess that shape is supposed to represent an envelope.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the new logo to be used on the Post & Go issues will look something like the new Postal Museum handstamp shown above?
ReplyDeleteA blurred image of the first day cover is shown on the BPMA’s website, which seems to indicate 3 limes of text next to the new logo on pictorial base stock and 2 lines on Machin base stock http://shop.postalheritage.org.uk/collections/stamp/products/the-postal-museum-first-day-cover
ReplyDeleteAn image of the new logo is shown here http://shop.postalheritage.org.uk/collections/stamp/products/blank-bpma-cover
If you subscribe to the BPMA’s Post & Go eBulletin http://eepurl.com/249or , the latest issue which I got last Thursday proudly mentioned the embargo on the new logo until 1st February. Clearly they are trying to create a ‘buzz’ amongst philatelist. They may however just add to the apathy that most will feel.
They didn't acknowledge my comment that the embargo had already broken when they first announced it, trying to make such a fuss. I do think it's a pity it isn't the National Postal Museum.
DeleteFrom an aesthetic point the new logo and mane look good on the flag and lion labels, but the ones on the Machins look like something you would have created in WordPerfect back in the ’90’s. Of course they could not have had them multi lined as that would have impinged on the ability to have the ‘commemorative’ inscriptions. Now time to flaunt my ignorance, what is that shape supposed to be?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is an envelope. If it is, its a pretty poor representation.
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