October starts (as September ended) with the unexpected slogan for the Rugby World Cup win by the Red Roses. We still don't know the period of application, meanwhile here's an example of the slogan applied in October, thanks to Jon on Stampboards.
Update 11 October: A reader of the Postal Mechanisation Study Circle's (PMSC) Newsletter writes:
New slogan details are provided to mail centres by software updates; these are the software deployed dates, and dates when each slogan will likely be available for delivery on the "doormat".
* Because the software only goes live when there is a re-set of IMP and iLSM which of course varies office to office a slogan might print on or the day after the deployed date (and is machine specific so again could vary within one mail centre). The same situation occurs when the next slogan overrides it.
There can be very late deployments when an instruction comes through late, and on routine slogans, getting the slogan ready on a particular day could be at any time ahead of the day.
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The default British Heart Foundation slogan was back in use on 6 October; this one from Jubilee Mail Centre supplied by JH.
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| British Heart Foundation slogan Jubilee Mail Centre 06-10-2025 |
Update 16 October No more examples of the Rugby World Cup slogan have been received, but RW has sent this barely legible Anti-Slavery slogan from Mount Pleasant 15 October 2025 which uses the same wording as that used in 2023.
STAMPING OUT MODERN SLAVERY
Anti-Slavery Day
18th October
antislavery.org
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| Anti-Slavery Day postmark slogan Mount Pleasant Mail Centre 15-10-2025 |
Both versions should exist!
Update 22 October. Still only one version but MM has sent two more examples, better than the above but not great. Jubilee on 14 October, Dorset & SW Hants on 15 October.
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| Anti-Slavery Day postmark slogan Jubilee Mail Centre 14-10-2025 |
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| Anti-Slavery Day postmark slogan Dorset & S W Hants Mail Centre 15-10-2025 |
And the clearest one yet, supplied to RW by Mount Pleasant dated 14-10-2025
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| Anti-Slavery Day postmark slogan Mount Pleasant Mail Centre 14-10-2025 |
And lastly, thanks to JM for this version from the IMP machine at Manchester on 15/10/2025.
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| Anti-Slavery Day postmark slogan Manchester Mail Centre 15/10/2025 |
Other postmarks and postal markings, etc
Another counter datestamp, this one from JH is Wellswood Place Torquay, also known as Wellswood.
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| Wellswood (Place) Post Office, from Google maps 2024. |
Postboxes etc Some postbox and locker pictures are shown in the post on Royal Mail's expansion into the high street. Here are some more pictures from our holiday.
1. Standard George V postbox in Mansfield Market Place. The box, like Mansfield sadly, is badly in needed of a make-over. You can only keep adding layers of paint for so long.
2. Two boxes from Louth, Lincolnshire. The one with the Magic Roundabout topper is outside Louth post office in Northgate. Sadly Ermintrude had keeled over, but other characters were upright! The other is on the corner of Mercer Row and Market Place
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| Magic Roundabout's Zebedee |
3. Morrisons Supermarket, Banbury and 4. Newstead Abbey south of Mansfield.
How did we manage to fit in Lincolnshire, Nottingham/Derbyshire and Buckinghamshire in one? Well we had to leave for a family occasion part way through, which took us to Buckinghamshire. Unfortunately our return was marred by sitting for over five hours on the M1 near Lutterworth after a serious crash. The incident was attended by at least two fire engines, 10 police vehicles, three ambulances and the helicopter, and two National Highways Traffic vehicles. Only two cars were involved and one person was taken to hospital.
I did get the chance to talk to the veteran driver of a 36 tonne Royal Mail articulated lorry behind us. He had a new tractor unit (although someone had already pranged it) with the Charles III logo.
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Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in October will be added to this post, so check here before you spend time scanning and emailing.
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