Re: My name is GRIZZ and I am a……..
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:38 pm
Hi grizz and welcome.
Thank you.
mercrocker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:34 pm You can still use "commemorative" postage stamps, like Christmas ones and those issued for a certain "thing" such as British Architecture or Beatles Albums or any of those thousands of reasons the Post Office found to issue coloured bits of paper. Not sure if these have to state 1st or 2nd class or whether you can multiple-up the face-value ones to the required postage amount.
You cannot use the old "standard" QE head 1st, 2nd or any monetary denomination - "Standard" postage stamps must be the scannable type issued at the end of QE2 reign. They get scanned and RM know they've been scanned too so you can't simply peel them off and reuse them.
These rules are changing all the time though so best to check the Royal Mail website for the latest version of the truth.
Christmas stamps are still valid it's just the machins that aren't, plus the post office will exchange the steps for new one's. You need to send them off