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 8^th November to 5pm Thursday 30^th November:

• A001 reel 5: Poppies to replace Union Flags with the overprint “The Postal Museum/Lest we Forget ‘23”
• A013 reel 3: 1^st Class Machins replaced by Poppies with the overprint “Mail Rail/Lest we Forget ‘23”

 
From 10am Friday 1^st December to 5pm Sunday 31^st December:

• A001 reel 1: Winter Greenery 1C to replace 1^st Class Machins
• A001 reel 3: Winter Greenery 2C to replace 2^nd Class Machins
• A013 reel 3: Winter Greenery to replace Poppies in A013 reel 3 (but only until 27^th December)
• A001 reel 5: Mail Coach (The Postal Museum exclusive) stamp to replace Poppies.

 
From 10am 27^th December to 5pm 31^st 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: 1^st 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.

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