We are a 18 days through August but so far I have had no reports of new slogans. Mind you, with the low amount of stamped mail anyone receives these days - apart from dealers and other collectors - it's hardly surprising that we have had no reports yet, not even for the default British Heart Foundation (BHF) slogan.
Mind you, the BHF slogan may not continue for much longer. John F reports seeing this on Royal Mail's website:
Royal Mail are working in partnership with the charity Missing People to raise awareness of their support services for anyone who may be thinking about disappearing, anyone already away from home, or friends and family with a missing loved one.
Update: John has advised that this partnership has been running for a number of years - although I've never seen any evidence of 'raising awareness' - so it is unlikely that it will replace the BHF slogan.
On which subject I received two today, sadly on the same envelope from Sheffield Mail Centre. Margaret also sent one from Home Counties North, date unclear.
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| British Heart Foundation slogan Sheffield Mail Centre 17 August 2026 |
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| British Heart Foundation slogan Home Counties North ?? August 2026 |
UPDATE 20 August. I am pleased to say that SS in Canada has now returned from holiday and has sent a couple of items for inclusion here. Out of 11 UK packages only three were postmarked and on one the stamps were pen-cancelled. The other 7 had nothing! Anyway, here is a much clearer BHF slogan from Birmingham Mail Centre on 11/08/2026.
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| British Heart Foundation slogan Birmingham Mail Centre 11 August 2026 |
As a reminder of an occasional non-slogan ink-jet postmark, JohnH has sent this one from North & West Yorkshire showing a situation when the machine settings do not produce a slogan, only a summary.
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| Non-slogan inkjet postmark from North & West Yorkshire, 18/08/2026 |
Other postmarks and postal markings
At the time of writing I haven't found anything to show here, but in the absence of anything new I shall probably delve into history!
Another one from SS in Canada, who received this package from Wotton Under Edge in Gloucestershire. Nice use of the top three values of the datamatrix Machin stamps and 3 x 20p for the £8.60 up to 100 g rate International Tracked and Signed.
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| Wotton Under Edge self-inking datestamp 27 July 2026 |
The post office is in the Co-operative supermarket in Long Street (Google Streetview 2025)
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| A dull day in Wotton Under Edge, outside the post office, July 2025. |
Remember, slogan postmarks appearing in August 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.
