September starts (as August ended) with the default British Heart Foundation slogan. Las year we had Air Ambulances week and 'Thinking of You' week one of the regular exhortations from the greetings card industry to 'send a card'.
Here's an early example of the BHF slogan that we received at home. This is from Peterborough Mail Centre dated 02-09-2025
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| British Heart Foundation slogan from Peterborough Centre 02-09-2025 |
As expected the slogan for Air Ambulance Week has now appeared. Thanks to PC for this one from South East Anglia Mail Centre 06/09/2025.
Support your
Air Ambulance
Air Ambulance Week
September 9th - 15th
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| Support Your Air Ambulance slogan South East Anglia Mail Centre 06/09/2025 |
Update 18 September. DW sent this copy of the other layout for the Air Ambulance from Inverness Mail Centre on the same date.
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| Support Your Air Ambulance slogan Inverness Mail Centre 06-09-2025 |
Update 18 September. As predicted the annual Send A Card campaign supporting the Greetings Card Industry has its slogan this week. Here's and example from Peterborough on 16 September thanks to KH.
The slogan repeats the format from previous years.
Send A Card
Deliver A Smile for
Thinking of You Week
15th-22st September 2025
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| Thinking of You Week slogan used at Peterborough Mail Centre 16-09-2025 |
Other postmarks and postal markings, etc
I haven't seen any news reports about this postbox repainted recently in Dartford, reported by Lars Tåders. Let us know if you see any more - although as they are almost certainly unofficial I probably won't give them too much publicity.
Other postmarks.
Thanks to JB for these two examples of postmarks from Lincoln. The first is from the Delivery Office, and the second from Sincil Street post office.
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| Lincoln Delivery Office handstamp on a receipt 18 July 2025. |
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| Sincil Street Lincoln B post office counter self-inking datestamp 22 July 2025. |
This branch is interesting because it is not in Sincil Street! Following consultation the branch was relocated to Unit 7, The Stonebow Centre, Silver Street, Lincoln, LN2 1DY in 2021. It seems it has retained the same handstamp. This may be because the shop relocated under the same ownership and the postmaster decided they didn't want to pay for a new datestamp with the new location's wording.
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| Sincil Street, Lincoln, Post Office in the Stonebow Centre Silver Sreet, not in Sincil St. Image from Google Streetview |
Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in Sepember will be added to this post, so check here before you spend time scanning and emailing.
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