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Monday, 31 March 2025

Special Stamp Calendar 2025 almost complete

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My thanks to my fellow-blogger on the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion blog for finding and posting the latest version of the Royal Mail Special...
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Thursday, 20 March 2025

Advanced Myths and Legends set of 8x 1st class now due 27 March 2025.

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The stamp programme for 2025 was changed in early January and then for a second time, as this issue was brought forward from April. The Lan...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Proof of posting now available at your local postbox, for parcels with online postage

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Press Release 11 March 2025 Royal Mail customers can now use one of the 115,000 postboxes in the UK to drop off smaller parcel...
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Friday, 7 March 2025

Denmark's Postal Service won't deliver letters after 30 December 2025.

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Danish Post Box According to an announcement on it's website, Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter del...
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Postal rates 7 April 2025 - basic airmail rate and 1st Large Letter see biggest increases.

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By now many of you will have seen news of Royal Mail's next price increases on stamp/Postcrossing forums or social media, but as yet the...
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Thursday, 6 March 2025

Is this the second in a new series? Garden Wildlife set of ten - 11 March 2025

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Ahead of the next tariff increase Royal Mail will issue a set consisting only of 2nd class and 1st class stamps depicting Garden Wildlife.  ...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Marching on through 2025 another round of slogan postmarks and other postal markings.

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Without any announcement from Royal Mail's press office (why do they not promote the organisations and campaigns they support?) we had a...
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Thursday, 27 February 2025

Machin and Regional Invalidation: SwapOut delays update

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It is many months since I wrote anything substantive about the SwapOut scheme to replace invalidated stamps with new barcoded definitives.  ...
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Monday, 24 February 2025

Welcome news from Royal Mail

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It would seem that someone at Royal Mail has been listening to reaction from collectors to the ever-increasing cost of their products.  Eith...
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Friday, 21 February 2025

Joint Royal Mail / Evri parcel locker box at Swindon

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Last month I wrote about the new Royal Mail lockers provided from Ukraine.   BM has supplied some photographs of the similar Evri/Royal Mail...
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