Thank you to RW and JH for sending early examples of the British Heart Foundation slogan in the two formats, Home Counties North 01-10-2024 and Sheffield Mail Centre 04/10/2024.
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| British Heart Foundation slogan from Home Counties North 01-10-2024 |
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| British Heart Foundation slogan from Sheffield Mail Centre 04/10/2024 |
UPDATE 16 October. Thanks to DW for the first new slogan this month, for World Menopause Awareness Day.
World Menopause
Awareness Day
18 October
Let's talk and share experiences
to make a real difference
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| Menopause Awareness Day slogan Edinburgh Mail Centre 14-10-2024 |
Other postmarks, postal markings etc.
UPDATE 23 October: SS in Canada has sent another Exeter packet stamp, and unlike the last ones this one has the postcode EX2 7XX at the foot.
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| Exeter Mail Centre packet stamp with postcode EX2 7XX 8 OCT 2024 |
Thanks to JF for providing this cover which has stamps cancelled with the wavy line handstamp instead of by a pen. This was sent to India from Bath, Somerset, so well done to the people in Bath or Bristol's Mail Centre for getting these cancelled. India is in Zone 1 for which the postage is £4.20 for 100g, so it is overpaid by 80p or more than three of these stamps. (The next weight step costs £7.05.)
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| Wavy line handstamp on airmail letter from Bath (or Bristol Mail Centre) 2024. |
UPDATE: Rob has pointed out that this is paid as a standard letter (C5 size) so properly paid at £2.50: for some reason I doubled that and said that it was 80p overpaid at £4.20 - time to give up!
We should get a Movember slogan this month, so if you receive or come across that or any other
interesting postal markings from any period or place, please send them to the email address in
the top right of this blog. Thank you.
UPDATE: No Movember slogan has been reported for October.
Remember, all postmarks appearing in October will be added to this post, so check
here before you spend time scanning and emailing.
Fancy that a special stamp actually used!
ReplyDeleteOnly from a collection or a dealer's stock though, not recently bought from a Post Office.
ReplyDeleteFor more recent stamps used see https://machins-on-cover.blogspot.com/2024/07/special-stamps-are-so-scarce-when-new.html
DeleteI have received several cards from Postcrossers in the past months - all with recent special stamps, but none with a postmark!
DeleteYes, but aren't most Postcrossers also philatelists ?
Delete'The man on the Clapham omnibus' hasn't bought recent 'special stamps' except the Christmas ones.
On the "wavy line" cover you say "India is in Zone 1 for which the postage is £4.20 for 100g, so it is overpaid by 80p or more than three of these stamps". Is that right? I only see 10x 25p stamps so isn't this a standard letter at £2.50, correctly paid? Or were there more on the back?
ReplyDeleteOn reflection, you're probably right. I overlooked the fact that it could be a standard letter.
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