Over a year ago Royal Mail announced that they were adopting the Tudor Crown in their logo but that it would be done gradually - and we recently reported that some Downstream Access PPI, which is used by Direct Mailers, so they would use up old stationery first.
But Royal Mail are also moving slowly. Today I received the latest batch of stamps from the Swapout scheme. The letter has the new crown - but the Special Delivery postage label - which I'm sure is printed on demand for each item as it contains the name and address and barcode - still has the old. The envelope that the label was stuck to (ENV 04) also has the old crown.
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| Special delivery label on the left, and letterhead on the right. |
KC reports that he had a statement of account with old cruciform on the statement but in an envelope with the new cruciform (ENV 32)
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| Royal Mail envelope ENV 32 |
and Order advice note with new cruciform on the advice note but in an envelope with the old cruciform (ENV 10).
JG reports the new crown in use in recent digital stamps - the direct mail with preprinted stamps - both the Christmas 2nd class and the King Charles III 2nd class, both from The Delivery Group.
Any more reports?
Yet more anomalies, the dispatch note that arrived today (Monty Python stamps) displayed the new crown but the despatch label (Tracked 48) that is printed on the reverse side of the same piece of paper displayed the old crown - Looks like not all software has been updated!
ReplyDeleteFrom checking recent dispatch notes, it looks as if the change in crown happened around the start of March this year. I'm embarassed to say that hadn't noticed until I saw Casey's comment.
DeleteFurther to my previous comment another despatch note and another mixture of crowns, this time the crown at the top of the page is new and the self adhesive label at the bottom of the same page (Removed and stuck on the envelope) depicts the old crown. So much for consistency and quality control!
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