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Friday, 29 December 2017

Don’t Panic - Royal Mail WILL tell us what the Jan 23rd issue is soon!

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My apologies..... ... to anybody I misled about when Royal Mail would break the news about 2018's stamp issues.  They led us to believ...
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Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Season's Greetings - another year over,

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Soon it will be Christmas; our pockets are bruised. A lot of stamps issued, but few have been used § (§ with apologies to fans of John Le...
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Christmas 2017 2nd class Postage Paid Impression

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Whatever you do and wherever you go it always pays to keep your eyes open for new material!  Needing two new tyres today I booked into my l...
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Thursday, 14 December 2017

New version of Machin Security Checklist now available; website update problem

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We are pleased to announce that the long-awaited updated version of our Checklist is now available from the usual source: click here .  [All...
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Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Stamp all you like, there won't be one for us leaving the EU!

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On the latest Commonwealth Stamps Opinion my fellow-blogger White Knight reports the furore among some politicians and UK newspapers (al...
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Tuesday, 12 December 2017

New Machin Printings wrapping things up for Christmas.

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As we expected they might, some low value Machin reprints have now appeared, rounding off most of the sheet stamps on Security Printed Backi...
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Monday, 11 December 2017

Royal Mail 'Employee Gift' stamps from a totally different printing!

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Every year, Royal Mail employees receive a Christmas Card from the management, and a gift of 50 x 1st class Christmas stamps.  I had expecte...
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Monday, 4 December 2017

December 2017 Slogan Postmarks - and others

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We don't expect much in the way of variety from slogans at this time of year apart from the exhortations to 'Post Early', follow...
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Friday, 1 December 2017

Winter Cheer: the end of Business Customised Sheets

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First there were Smilers, then there were Business Cusomised Sheets (BCS) aimed at company advertising.   Sadly that isn't how it stayed...
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Stanley Gibbons Guaranteed Investmenet Scheme Collapses: Guernsey arm in Administration

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I'm sure some readers of this blog in the UK and outside will have read that Stanley Gibbons (Guernsey) is "in Administration"...
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