Norvic Philatelics Blog

By now most people know that various Machin definitives have been forged to defraud Royal Mail - the 1st class gold, blue, red, lilac and da...

A short while ago I wrote about why 2nd class Large stamps in PO branches are so old , and showed an alternative means of paying for post...

The purpose of the postal mark shown below would seem to be self-evident: the item was received at the Post Office branch after the last po...

Royal Mail have confirmed that the September round of Walsall-printed counter sheets will be issued on 12 September, the first day of Autu...

As regular readers will know, Royal Mail occasionally send a list of the printing dates of  available counter sheets.  Sometimes this is...

Once again I am able to refer you to the website of Buckingham covers for your first sight of a new stamp issue that Royal Mail won't al...

Not announced in the 29 June Postmark Bulletin from Royal Mail is the news that the Midland Special Handstamp Centre will be closing on 23 J...

Anybody who has tried to find 2nd class Large stamps in almost any post office will find that the booklets are probably from late 2016 whe...

Now that we have received our weighty copy of Stanley Gibbons new Great Britain Concise 2018 catalogue we have made some more minor corr...

June was a bumper month for slogans, and one campaign runs over the end of the month.  So this month we start with a re-run of the first two...