The New Postage Stamps

[goodgoalie]

In my local Post Office today I asked for a book of 12 second class stamps and was told " only books of 8 available" They are the new ones with the QR code that we'll all have to use from next year - green and truly ugly. And to think of all the beautiful British stamps I still have in my two boyhood stamp albums - surely they could have come up with a more elegant solution.
What was wrong with the strip embedded in the old blue ones?

[highbury57]

Change for change’s sake. In a few years someone will decide green stamps are ugly……

[douglas9401]

I think we're stuck with them.

[aelmpvw]

//only books of 8 available//
they probably think joe public can't afford a book of twelve

[barry1010]

I'm sure they will have different designs and themes as well as the plain queen's head style they are currently selling

[goodgoalie]

Yes, but whatever the design - and the special stamps are nearly always 1st Class - they'll still have the wretched QR code alongside

[mallyh]

it would be so good if they gave a special cheaper rate at christmas x

[chelle7272]

I take it the Shaun the Sheep video is not worth it then :)

[youngmafbog]

Haven't bought a stamp in years.

[FoxLee2]

Why don't you use up the stamps in your collection, from decimalisation onwards, until next January. I used to collect stamps and found after a long time, I was just collecting the commemorative ones (and new definitive ones) out of habit so I decided to stop when we got to 2000. A couple of years ago we had someone come and value the collection and albums of First Day Covers and he offered me £30 which I turned down. The face value of these mint stamps must be in the hundreds and I have been using them ever since. I'm a bit miffed that I won't be able to do this after January.

[Chipchopper]

I was torn off a strip, when I commented on it.

[goodgoalie]

My 'collection' is from the sixties!

[douglas9401]

I was let go from the panel designing the offending stamps for thinking outside of the envelope.

[wolf63]

I volunteer in an Oxfam book and Music shop, we sell used stamps, postcards and first day covers.

Initially, I thought that the contents of old stamp albums and collections of first-day covers would make lots of money. But only very rare items are of any worth. We sell the stamps by weight and postcards and first-day covers have to be 'special' to be worth anything.

[FoxLee2]

Unlucky goodgoalie. My collection also goes back to the sixties with even earlier ones that I collected along the way. I even managed to get the football world cup in 1966 with the reissue of England Winners printed on it.

[loo58]

They have to somehow justify the increase in price.

[Tuvok]

Maybe that was the only stock they had.

If you wanted 12 you could have bought single ones.

[goodgoalie]

I'm well aware I could have bought them singly; my point wasn't about the number available per booklet - it was about the ugliness of the new stamps

[Peter Pedant]

// I was torn off a strip, when I commented on it.//

I felt as tho I had been stamped upon
jesus

[weecalf]

I’m sticking them in the corner

[THECORBYLOON]

Only the definitive and Christmas stamps are being barcoded so you can buy commemorative ones with no barcodes from a Post Office.