Did You Know ?

[Canary42]

I wrote a letter today, sealed it in an envelope, addressed it and stuck an old stamp on it.

Then I suddenly remembered that such stamps expired at the end of January.

But thankfully Google found me the information that the deadline has been extended.

Phew! The recipient is a charity, the last thing I wanted was to lumber them with an excess payment.

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23136530.royal-mail-extends-deadline-use-old-stamps-summer-2023/#:~:text=Royal%20Mail%20has%20extended%20the,months%20to%20July%2031%2C%202023.

[jno]

I missed that too, but I heard someone mention it the other day. I'd already swapped my old stamps anyway, just in case I also forgot and left it too late.

[Fitzer]

But since we are still mid-Jan the point is moot?

[Tilly2]

It was a third class stamp, Fitzer. :-)

[ichkeria]

I tried to buy 12 stamps in a Post Office yesterday and was told I had to buy them in books of 8.
This seems wrong to me.
I know people will claim that you have to buy biscuits in packets and can't just take one, but that isn't really the same thing.

[nero2024]

go to a small post office if you have one they sell them in singles

[ichkeria]

This was a pretty small post office.

I only went there because the supermarket didn’t have any and I’d be resigned to buying in bulk there of course

[hellywelly4]

I was told last week (in the post office) that I could use my ‘old’ stamps until July.

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, that's what it says in the link.

[10ClarionSt]

I once got a PO card through the door telling me that there was a letter addressed to me, to be collected at the local office, which had insufficient postage. I left it for weeks as I had no idea who it was from. On the last day available, I thought I'd better go and collect it, just in case. The excess postage was 8p. Yep, 8p, because it was an A4 envelope. There was only one thing inside - a £50 note.

[nero2024]

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/stamps

says here available individually

[Gromit]

It is probably undelivered in a striking Royal Mail sorting office.