Wednesday 8 November 2023

The Postal Museum: Final throes of Post and Go

The Postal Museum Press Release:

Following the announcement made by Royal Mail earlier this year, November and December will be the final months that visitors and collectors will be able to make purchases from The Postal Museum’s two Post & Go machines. Please find the final schedule of Post & Go at The Postal Museum below.

Mail Rail Lest We Forget additional inscription for 2023.


UPDATE 24 November - Revised and accurate position*
From 10am Wednesday 8th November to 5pm Thursday 30th November:

  • A001 reel 5: Poppies to replace Union Flags with the overprint “The Postal Museum/Lest we Forget ‘23”
  • A013 reel 3: 1st Class Machins replaced by Poppies with the overprint “Mail Rail/Lest we Forget ‘23”
 
From 10am Friday 1st December to 5pm Sunday 31st December:
  • A001 reel 1: Winter Greenery 1C to replace 1st Class Machins
  • A001 reel 3: Winter Greenery 2C to replace 2nd Class Machins
  • A013 reel 3: Winter Greenery to replace Poppies in A013 reel 3 (but only until 27th December)
  • A001 reel 5: Mail Coach (The Postal Museum exclusive) stamp to replace Poppies.
 
From 10am 27th December to 5pm 31st December:
  • A001 reel 1: Anniversary Machins to replace Winter Greenery 1C with the overprint “End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum”
  • A001 reel 6: Union Flag to replace PO London Railway with the overprint “End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum”
  • A013 reel 3: 1st Class Machins to replace Winter Greenery 1C with the overprint “End of Post & Go at/Mail Rail”

Date

Currently

Friday 1 Dec – Saturday 23 December

Weds 27 – Sunday 31 December (5pm)





A001 Reel 1

1st class Machin R20

The Postal Museum

Winter Greenery 1st

The Postal Museum  §

Anniversary Machins

End of Post & Go at

The Postal Museum

A001 Reel 3

2nd class Machin MA15

The Postal Museum

Winter Greenery 2nd

The Postal Museum §

<<<<<


A001 Reel 4

Mail by Bike

The Postal Museum

Dressed to Deliver


<<<<<<


<<<<<

A001 Reel 5

Poppies MA15

The Postal Museum

Lest We Forget '23

Mail Coach

The Postal Museum


<<<<<

A001 Reel 6

PO Underground*

The Postal Museum

<<<<<<<

Union Flag

End of Post & Go at

The Postal Museum

Mail Rail




A013 Reel 1

PO Underground*

Mail Rail

<<<<<<<


<<<<<

A013 Reel 3

Poppies MA15

Mail Rail

Lest We Forget '23

Winter Grenery 1st

Mail Rail §

1st class Machins

End of Post & Go at

Mail Rail

In both cases Reel 2 produces receipts.

§ Malcolm confirms that Greenery this year will be R19YAL and CL17S into A001 with R17YAL into A013.

 
*Further information:
Please note that the final overprint wording may still be subject to change. As these are the museum’s final stocks, availability is subject to demand and may run out before the dates listed above.
 

Although it may seem logical for the End of Post & Go inscription to be on all reels at present Royal Mail have limited it to those three shown.  It would certainly produce more revenue - which would go straight to the bottom line - if all 7 reels were treated alike.   Watch this space.

* I suggested the above to Royal Mail but by the time they had considered it they decided they should not change!

UPDATE 29 December

Show on the "Post and Go 2023" post in January a 'Last Overprint' at FAAM has been in use.


6 comments:

  1. A001 also appears to have gained a reel 6 as well!

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    1. I think it is 6 because 2 is receipts

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  2. FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM:
    I have seen the Poppy Stamps which have been put into the Machin Head side and read the same as seen above,i.e 'Lest we Forget' but with the "Fleet Air Arm" added instead. RW

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  3. Further to the table published above it is confirmed that the Greenery this year will be R19YAL and CL17S into A001 with R17YAL into A013.
    This is a reversal of last years codes for 1st class strips.

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    1. As often happens this was not what happened.
      At the start of the day R19YAL greenery had been placed into A013 Mail Rail kiosk, the error was corrected early afternoon after around 2 hours when R17YAL Greenery was inserted as per the original plan and remains the situation.

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