Norvic Philatelics Blog

Royal Mail's Christmas issue this year is reduced to only six stamps and retail booklets, plus the unnecessary miniature and generic she...

No, this isn't an invitation to a scam! I intended to offer a prize to anybody who could send a genuine timed screen grab of when the bl...

Users of GMail and other Google applications will be familiar with promoted advertisements appearing in various places - indeed if you are u...

This year's Christmas stamps on the religious theme will be issued on 3 November and again the issue date is the embargo date.  However ...

We all know that a basic 2nd class letter costs 68p to post whilst 1st class is 95p - the biggest difference there has ever been, a margin e...

Occasionally we receive emails from collectors - international and from the UK - who are visiting London, and who would like to buy their c...

I have been juggling so many plates in the air this past couple of months that I am running a bit behind on sending out stamps and covers th...

There has been little news so far of new slogan postmarks. I believe the 'Use your old stamps' slogan for the Datamatrix Swap-Out sc...

I wrote in February about the difficulty in deciding how to collect positional blocks of the new definitive stamps with datamatrix barcodes ...

I am grateful to the Modern British Philatelic Circle (MBPC) members for reporting new printings of some of the Machin definitives, somethin...