Slogan postmarks for March 2026 - and other interesting postal markings

Doesn't time race away as we get older?  I received the latest slogan postmark by email and was about to add them to the latest Slogan Postmark post - when I remembered that we are now in March!

I don't know whether the standard British Heart Foundation slogan started the month: as we have an example of a new slogan used on 3rd March it seems unlikely. 

So thanks to LT for this example of the International Women's Day slogan for this year, used at North & West Yorkshire 03/03/2026. 

International Women's Day
8 March 2026
#IWD2026
#GiveToGain

International Women's Day slogan North & West Yorkshire 03/03/2026

Update: Thanks to MM for the other format from Dorset & SW Hants

International Women's Day slogan Dorset & SW Hants 04-03-2026

 

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OTHER POSTMARKS AND POSTAL MARKINGS

Sometimes we find (or in this case get sent) an old marking which we have never seen before, nor seen reported.  Not that that means it is totally new: after 30 years it's impossible to remember everything, so maybe it has.  Doubtless someone from the British Postmark Society will remember it?

Delivered to Royal Mail Slough by Private Carrier on 13 Oct 1995

I don't know the circumstances in which this was used but the wording tells a story; there is no Postage Paid Indicator or Clause 9 Licence number.  

It's a rectangular handstamp so this must have occurred with enough volume to demand it -  and it either has changeable date wheels or the date is stamped in separately. Either way there must not only have been a volume but also frequency. The postage rate in 1995 was 19p for second class, so the 34p surcharge can't be explained easily.

[Space left for contributions from others!]

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Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in March 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.  

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

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