Slogan Postmarks for February 2026 - and other postal markings

February should start (as January ended) with the default British Heart Foundation slogan, but I have reliable information that it will change very soon to the BHF Revivr slogan similar to last year's. This will likely be interrupted by National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) which this year runs from 9-15 February, so we can expect the slogan to approximately follow those dates.  But will we get anything for St Valentine's Day?

While I have nothing yet to show you, this at least puts readers on alert for a new slogan this week, another one next week, and then a reversion to this week's the week after that.  Hopefully Sheffield Mail Centre will fall into line.

UPDATE 6 February.  By chance the first example of the Revivr slogan is from Sheffield!  Thanks LT for this one dated 03/02/2026.

British Heart Foundation RevivR slogan Sheffield Mail Centre 03/02/20226

UPDATE:

The slogan actually started on 2nd February and ran until 6th, but will return. Thanks to JE for this example from Bristol.

British Heart Foundation RevivR slogan Bristol Mail Centre 02/02/20226

And here, thanks to RW is the alternative layout from Norwich, although unfortunately not clear.

British Heart Foundation RevivR slogan Norwich Mail Centre 03-02-20226 (digitally adjusted)

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UPDATE 11 February 2026 - National Apprenticeship Week returns with a slightly different slogan.

Royal Mail supports
National
Apprenticeship Week
9 - 15 February
careers.royalmailgroup.com

In previous years the last line has had the URL of nationalapprenticshipweek.co.uk, but as you can see this year Royal Mail are promoting their own apprenticeship efforts.  JE provided this example from Bristol for 9th February (the campaign started on 7th).

National Apprenticeship Week slogan Bristol Mail Centre 09/02/2026

UPDATE 16 February.   Thanks to RS for the other layout of this slogan from Warrington Mail Centre 10th February.

National Apprenticeship Week slogan Warrington Mail Centre 10-02-2026

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UPDATE 20 February.  Revivr has been reintroduced.  Thanks to JF for this very clear example of the reverse layout on a square envelope from South East Anglia used on 13 February. 

British Heart Foundation RevivR slogan South East Anglia Mail Centre 13/02/20226

 

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Other postmarks and postal markings, etc

1. The first example this month repeats the Apprenticeship week slogan from above.  JE sent a stack of four examples all posted by the same person in a weekly batch.  

The large number at the foot of the postmark shows the first two are consecutive with the added novelty of each using a different monarch's stamp.

"Then ... and entering proper nerd territory :-) ... the number changes from 1144202784 at 20:37:02 to 1144202840 at 20:37:09. They all come from the same person in one batch (they post out once a week), so assume all cancelled on the same machine which therefore seems to process around 8 letters per second, give or take. "  

That equates to 28,800 per hour, or approximately the 30,000 that Royal Mail laud as the capability of these machines. It's not often we get the opportunity to see this amount of detail unless we have access to the mail centre!

Four covers from one batch of posting showing consecutive numbers on two, and demonstrating the speed of processing letters through the machine.

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St. Valentine's Day  Apprenticeship Week gets in the way of Royal Mail helping out the greetings card industry with a special slogan, but RW has sent this example of a slogan that the US Postal Service is using.  They also issue Love stamps every year (which may be something we don't want to encourage) and notecards.  

2026 USPS Love stamps and notecards

2026 USPS Love stamps slogan, used at Seattle.

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St Marychurch Post Office - a different type of handstamp.

Thanks to JH for this image from St Marychurch Post Office, Torquay dated 5 Feb 2026.  It is unlike anything else I have seen from a sub-post office, and I suspect it might be a local production by the postmaster.

St Marychurch Post Office 05 FEB 2026 Tel: 01803 327786

Here's the Google streetview image of the post office branch, and below it from a different website, the branch's silver van complete with Post Office logo.

St Marychurch Post Office van (Geograph.co.uk)

I have some examples of what I suspect are also locally acquired rubber stamps used on certificates of posting at March, Cambridgeshire 30 years ago.  These were used alongside self-inking datestamps (SIDs).  The Parcel Post stamp looks like a conventional one, and may well be, but by the time SIDs were being introduced rectangular Parcel Post handstamps were being phased out as Horizon labels made them unnecessary.  I suspect the first and third of these were produced for applying to forms and bag labels etc, rather than for cancelling stamps.

 

 Any other examples of locally produced handstamps being used on stamps?

 

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Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in February will be added to this post, so check here before you spend time scanning and emailing.

A reminder of what these monthly listings are for.  

For each month I record the different slogans in use, plus the default slogan that is used when there is nothing else.

For each of these I try to record only one of each of the basic two types, plus any that are reversed on square envelopes, which normally only gives three or four.  

Occasionally a slogan appears with different line spacing in the same format. 

I do not record multiple versions of the same as any of these unless I later get a much better example of one that I showed purely for the record, but which is otherwise not very clear.

The only exception to this, which doesn't seem to happen much these days, is when a slogan is used well out of time, such as the Air Ambulance Week slogan below which is from September 2024!  

I mention this only to avoid readers unnecessarily duplicating what has already been provided.

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