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Edited from Press Release LONDON, 8 December 2016 – The Postal Museum is pleased to announce that from Wednesday 15 February 201...

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised: the airmail tariff (Worldwide letters 20-100g) was not increased this year so perhaps it is not so...

I'm sorry to disappoint all of you who expect that this post will show the programme, but it doesn't! In years gone by (not so lon...

We recently received a C3 envelope folded and taped to be almost square, cancelled with Manchester's 'Large Flat' postmarking ma...

Readers will recall the changes to the Horizon labels (right) to incorporate the 2D bar code ( reported in October 2015 ).  The purpose of ...

A message from Royal Mail Special Handstamp Liaison in Edinburgh: I can confirm that there will be no postmark bulletin issue for the ...

I'm sorry I wasn't able to give the quiz answers as soon as I expected, but a large number of orders for the stamps which surfaced ...

Barring any last minute surprises we now have a complete list of Machin definitives issued or first available during 2016.  The surprise cha...

New Booklets and Business Sheets 20 October 2016 As mentioned earlier Royal Mail have decided to standardise the typeface/font used in th...

Shortly before we went on holiday one of our readers related the story of his trip to a Crown Post Office in SE England. He found that the...