Readers who subscribe to Royal Mail's new issue service are starting to receive advance notices of charges to their accounts or cards.
Apparently Music Giants IX (not identified) will be issued on 11 January and includes PSB YB117 priced at £23.70 - which ought to mean more King Charles III definitives.
One reader reports his total bill, presumably for regular stamps, MS, PSB comes to £42.90!
Will it be another one of these, as suggested by a reader last year?
More information will be provided here when we are permitted to release it - around a week before issue if past experience is anything to go by.
Lets hope it is not the rumour I heard the spice girls (insert Jim Royle catchphrase)
ReplyDeleteSpice up your life!
DeleteOr, if we are using Spice Girls single titles to send a message to Royal Mail:
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Will this be music to your ears, or damage them!?
ReplyDeleteNot sure I'd be buying many stamps if it is the Spice Girls!
Spice girls they could not si g to save their lives! I am very disappointed, I don't suppose Genesis will ever get a mention.
ReplyDeleteThose were my designs from a few years ago! Good to see you've put them to good use, Ian!
ReplyDeleteWhiteKnight - I find it impossible to guess what warped choices of subjects will be made for next year’s stamp issues. We do seem to know, from your latest post, that those who plan these things intend once more to feature someone deemed to hold a special place in British musical history (though whether they will be celebrated in, say, 200 years time is another question) on the first dubious products to ooze from Royal Mail in 2024. Some commentators in your Blog have already speculated that the stamps may feature theSpice Girls and have been rather negative about the idea. It is of little interest to me who is considered to be the next “music giant(s)” to be commemorated by RM as I will not buy the products but as regards the Spice Girls I do remember them once meeting Nelson Mandela in South Africa and he saying that it was the greatest day of his life, or something like that, which given everything that happened to him, was quite a statement (though perhaps he was just being polite). So if the Spice Girls do make an appearance in January or some other time, do remember that Mandela might have bought a set for his grandchildren.
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DeleteI was at a post office today and saw the stamps to be issued on 11th January.
ReplyDeleteYes they ARE the Spice Girls, the stamps are 1st class and show them from various performances and are in same format as the Rolling Stones ones issued this year..Dont know if there is a minisheet as well.
I have now seen minisheet which consists of 5 vertical stamps-guess the subjects
DeleteA new low for Royal Mail!
DeleteCome on it is a very important anniversary-unlike trivia like 75th birthday of the King for which no stamps were issued
DeleteBe fair, they will be used by people who enjoyed their ditties at the time. Anyone younger than that probably does not use stamps.
DeleteThe strips are already being offered on a certain auction site.
ReplyDeleteIf you can pick them out from the dross from Abkhazia and Batumi!
DeleteI actually have some envelopes from Abhazia genuine postally used
ReplyDeleteWell these really are being kept under cover only 12 days to go before issue and no leaks of the mini sheet yet, and only a rough example of the stamps!
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