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Monday, 30 September 2024

Another autumn postage rate increase on 7 October 2024 - will there be two a year in future?

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Once again Royal Mail chose to announce new postage rates while we were away, so by now most of the headline news is well known.   Royal Mai...
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September Slogan Postmarks and other interesting postal markings etc

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As might have been expected new slogan postmarks - absent in August - made a return in September.  Several readers sent examples and if I f...
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Friday, 27 September 2024

Did pre-Horizon system Capture wrong data, bankrupting postmasters? Fujitsu CEO slaps down POL over new cases.

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I know this isn't on the list in my previous post but it's timely and brings attention back to the Post Office Ltd failings, and the...
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News snippets for September 2024

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Greetings everybody, we're back from Ireland where the weather was much better than it has been, and remains, here in the UK.    A taste...
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Spiders - set of 10 stamps, issued 26 September 2024

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Described by Wikipedia as " air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and ...
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Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Advancing warning for arachnaphobes - they're coming!

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As collectors and other readers may know, the next stamp issue from Royal Mail features a selection of what Wikipedia describes as ... air-b...
Thursday, 29 August 2024

50 Years of Porridge - that's a long stretch; stamp set issued 3 September 2024

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Royal Mail once again trawls through television's archives to find some memorable lines and the associated pictures for another set of s...
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Friday, 23 August 2024

News of forthcoming stamp issues while we are away.

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The Royal Mail programme for the remainder of the year has -3 September - Porridge 26 September - Spiders 17 October - Music Giants X - The ...
Monday, 19 August 2024

Special Issues coming off sale by the end of the year

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Royal Mail have announced dates on which various stamp issues which will cease to be available from their Tallents House bureau, during the ...
Thursday, 15 August 2024

A reminder of Royal Mail's reasoning behind £1 & £2 stamps.

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  I posted this in May 2023, but it's worth repeating here as people keep asking why £1 and £2 special stamps are being issued when ther...
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