Special Announcement from Royal Mail:
As a result of Covid-19 and the restrictions that
were placed on individuals’ movements, Royal Mail took the decision at
the end of March to extend its postmarking facilities for all Special
Stamp issues until further notice.
We promised
that we would announce at the appropriate time when this extension
would end and give customers sufficient notice of the cut-off period for
accepting covers retrospectively. With these restrictions now being
gradually eased throughout the UK we will revert
to the normal postmarking rules from Thursday, 1st October.
This means that Royal Mail First Day Covers for the following Special
Stamp Issues will come off sale at midnight on that day and any covers
submitted for postmarking bearing stamps from
these issues must be received by Special Handstamp Centres by this
date.
The Romantic Poets
End of the Second World War
Coronation Street
Roman Britain
Queen
The Palace of Westminster
Sherlock
Rupert Bear
The normal postmarking rules will apply to the Brilliant Bugs stamp issue which means that the Royal Mail First Day Covers will be available up until midnight on the First Day of Issue, 1st October.
So the useful flexibility will end at the end of September. That's been useful and the service from the Handstamp Centres has been good as usual. I had some (18 June) Roman Britain maximum cards back today which I sent on 9 July. Still waiting for some, and for (8 May) WW2 which I sent after the Roman ones.
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