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
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| International Women's Day slogan North & West Yorkshire 03/03/2026 |
Update: Thanks to MM for the other format from Dorset & SW Hants
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| International Women's Day slogan Dorset & SW Hants 04-03-2026 |
Update 10 March: the first stamped letter I have received for some time was posted yesterday, so Royal Mail can get some things right! After IWD it seems that Mothering Sunday will be overlooked, despite the opportunity for many card sales and postings, and we have the standard British Heart Foundation slogan. From Cornwall Mail Centre.
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| British Heart Foundation from Cornwall Mail Centre 09/03/2026 |
Update 12 March. I received an email yesterday informing me that a Mother's Day slogan was being sent out to mail centres to run until Friday evening. Introduction at mail centres is likely to be not simultaneous, the IMPs especially may have been subject to delay. So while I was out this morning LT sent an example from Sheffield Mail Centre dated 11 March. Mother's Day is two weeks earlier this year than last (30th) when we had examples on 24th, so maybe someone forgot to check the calendar this year.
Remember
Mother's Day
15 March 2025
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| Remember Mother's Day 15 March 2026 Sheffield Mail Centre 11/03/2026 |
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?
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| 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.
UPDATE: PA writes "My immediate reaction was that it was C9 mail with no indicia, but was dubious about the date. I have now checked and that did not commence until 2004. Thus this pre-dates the competitors.
I think it is probably DX mail. They delivered mail between their members thus not infringing the monopoly. Initially they served solicitors and later other trades including travel agents and were based in Slough. I am now guessing somewhat, that they received mail addressed to non-members and thus were unable to deliver which was then handed to Royal Mail and surcharged.
Post Office Branch. From SS our correspondent in Canada a Tracked & Signed item which took two months to get from Watford to Vancouver! It was worth the wait because the sender used a set of five greetings stamps which were very fine used at Leavesden Green Post Office north of Watford. (One of the James Bond, and all of the Harry Potter, film franchises were produced at Leavesden Studios.)
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| Leavesden Green self-inking datestamp 19 JA 26 |
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| Leavesden Green Post Office - Google Street View April 2018. |
UPDATE 20 March. Thanks to MM I can show another Morse Code handstamp, this time from Whitmore Park Road post office in the northern outskirts of Coventry.
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| Whitmore Park Road Post Office handstamp 17 MAR 2026 |
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| Whitmore Park Road Post Office Google streetview August 2024. |
The latest edition of the British Postmark Society Journal records Morse Code type rubber self-inking datestamps at
COUNTY OAK (Crawley),
DARLINGTON LANE (Stockton-on-Tees),
FELLSIDE (Newcastle-upon-Tyne),
HAYWAYDS HEARTH WEST SUSSEX (two examples), and
BHub Cintingency 93 (Banking Hub, a Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows).
UPDATE 27 March. A letter received this week was posted at MERCHANT CITY GLASGOW and although it received the BHF Slogan, one stamp was not covered:
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| Merchant City Glasgow self-inking datestamp 21 March 2026. |
Sited on the corner of Wilson Street and Glassford Street (Glasgow G1) the branch is now in a Spar shop. A box is on the opposite side of Glassford Street, and behind the camera on this shot there is a Tardis-style blue Police Box.
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| Merchant City branch post office, Glasgow G1 (June 2024, Google street view) |
Lockers update. Wednesday was a warm and sunny day so we went to the coast, and I spotted this locker in the garden of The Lobster in Sheringham. This one has the facility for pick-up and drop-off of Evri, Royal Mail, and UPS packets.
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| Multi-company Locker at The Lobster, Sheringham, Norfolk March 2026 |
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.
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.
