After Christmas the default slogan for British Heart Foundation (BHF) returned, and this continued into January. There ought to be one for Burns Night towards the end of the month, so look out for that.
RW has sent this example of the BHF slogan dated 09/01/2025 from Tyneside NE/SR Mail Centre.
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Default British Heart Foundation slogan used Tyneside NE/SR Mail Centre 09/01/2025 |
Update 28 January I'm a little behind on these but there has only been one new slogan so far. As far as I know Royal Mail did not commemorate Burns Night (25th January) this year. I think the last one was in 2021.
However a recurring one is for Holocaust Memorial Day, and here is the Royal Mail publicity image.
Holocaust Memorial Day publicity picture. |
Holocaust
Memorial Day
For a Better Future
27 January 2025
Examples of both layouts have been supplied by readers. RW sent one from South East Anglia, and MD sent one from Glasgow: both are dated 23 January.
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Holocaust Memorial Day used at Glasgow 23-01-2025 |
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Holocaust Memorial Day used at South East Anglia 23/01/2025 |
Update 3 February 2025
Royal Mail have announced that the British Heart Foundation variant for RevivR (used last February) will be used again this year.
British Heart
Foundation
Learn lifesaving CPR with RevivR
Find out more at
bhf.org.uk/revivr
Other postmarks and postal markings
MD also sent this not too clear example of a self-inking datestamp from the Post Office branch at Summerton Glasgow.
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Summerston Glasgow self-inking datestamp 21 JA 25 |
Summerston is in the Asda Superstore in the north Glasgow suburb of Maryhill. There was a time when Post Office signs were always large, and often mounted at right-angles to the building so that they could be identified from a distance. This one is mounted flat on the building, so at least you can see it when you have parked, though if you don't know that it is within the store, maybe you wouldn't know where to park.
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Asda Superstore, Summerston, Maryhill, Glasgow. |
Jan W sent another example of a dotted counter stamp, this one from Broomhall Drive, Corstophine, Edinburgh. The branch has been located within the Day-Today Express at 37 Broomhall Drive since October 2023. Google's car last went past in 2020 so there is no signage, but the postbox was there then, suggesting that this might have been the location of the post office branch before that.
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Broomhall Drive PO self-inking datestamp - new type with Morse Code border 9 December 2024. |
Postboxes
Not long after our return from Ireland, I showed some pictures of Irish postboxes, and PD sent this rare example of a British Edward VII pillar box which is in Stephen St, Sligo, (Photo taken in Sept 2023).
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Rare Edward VII British Pillar Box in Sligo, Rep of Ireland. |
RS has sent some more pictures of Irish boxes, Victorian in Killarney, Edward VII in Tipperary (similar to the one above), and George V in Dublin. BW points out that the George V boxes are not as common as Edward VII because independence came part way through the reign in 1922.

Old Postboxes UK Facebook page
Remember, all postmarks appearing in January will be added to this post, so check here before you spend time scanning and emailing.
Hi Ian - do you know if Royal Mail publish a list of slogan postmarks in advance? I'm aware of Postmark Bulletin but that only seems to feature handstamps. Sadly I think I was too late to get the postmark they released for Holocaust Memorial Day and I'd like to look out for others in the future. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNo they don't Penny (although they used to many decades ago). They sometimes don't seem to know themselves what is coming and often the PR people will be the last to know. It's not something that the Stamps dept gets involved in.
DeleteAh what a shame! Thanks for the reply.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen the "Morse Code" date stamp. Hard to read though as there are no spaces between letters! Morse Code needs spaces to be intelligible.
ReplyDeleteyes, someone was trying to be clever at POHQ but failed on that point!
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