We are a third of the way through July but so far I have had no reports of new slogans. Royal Mail has featured in many news articles about dog attacks on postal workers, and by now we would have expected to see a Dog Awareness slogan, but no.
So once again we have the British Heart Foundation, and I can show both examples received here. Bristol Mail Centre 04/07/2026 and Norwich Mail Centre 08-07-2026.
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| BHF Norwich Mail Centre 08-07-2026 |
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| BHF Bristol (BA,BS,GL,TA) Mail Centre 04/07/2026 |
OTHER POSTMARKS AND POSTAL MARKINGS
Our reader in Canada (SS) has sent a picture of a cover with a counter datestamp. This is another case of not identifying the town or area because the inscription on the SID is simply VICTORIA ROAD. This could be in north London, in Romford, Leeds, Swindon and Kirkby in Ashfield. Fortunately, being tracked, we can see that it was posted in the Swindon area.
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| Victoria Road, Swindon, self-inking datestamp 01 07 2026 |
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| International Tracked and Signed letter from Swindon to Vancouver, Canada. |
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| Victoria Road, Swindon, from Google maps. |
Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in July 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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