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Friday, 27 June 2025

Fungi or mushrooms? Royal Mail blur the lines - set of 10 stamps 3 July 2025

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All mushrooms are fungi, but not all fungi are mushrooms.  Mushrooms are fungi with a stem (called a stipe ) and a cap. This stamp issue was...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Post Office link with Evri for collections from retail premises

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This van was spotted collecting from a Dereham OneStop shop.  The shop does not include a Post Office but is an Evri Parcelshop. We can also...
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Thursday, 19 June 2025

To Surcharge or Not To Surcharge - the inside deal.

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Collectors and dealers alike agonised over what Royal Mail intended for non-datamatrix stamps three years ago. What soon became apparent wa...
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Friday, 13 June 2025

Royal Observatory Coin Cover error - check yours!

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If you buy Royal Mail's coin/medal covers, do you always check them for errors?  MC noticed this one, and it may be that all are like th...
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Miscellaneous for sale: PSB definitive panes, presentation pack error, facsimile pack

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There's not a great deal of news at present, so I am digging out some unusual items (mostly one-off) from my boxes to offer here rather ...
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Monday, 9 June 2025

Slogan postmarks for June - and other interesting postal markings.

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June will have started as May ended with the default British Heart Foundation postmark although I've yet to see any examples. We might g...

The Co-op is first retail chain to host Royal Mail parcel lockers

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Parcel lockers first announced in January are now being installed in a partnership with the Co-op. From the Royal Mail press release: Co-op...
Thursday, 5 June 2025

Disposal of remaining Crown Post Offices to take place this year.

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In April this year Post Office Ltd announced that   ..... the last 108 Directly Managed Branches which are operated by the Post Office will...
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Will there be new stamps from Post Office's new self-service kiosks?

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Post Office Limited (POL) has awarded a contract for the supply of new SSKs to imageHolders - that may mean new stamps, time will tell.   T...

350th Anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Observatory - 12 June 2025

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Yet another Prestige Stamp Book is being issued, this time for the 350th Anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Observatory - probabl...
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