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Royal Mail

The essential guide to barcoded postage stamps

February 9, 2023 by Lucy Williams
A Large 1st class barcoded Royal Mail postage stamp. It is blue.

While some may consider letter-writing an old-fashioned method of communication, postage stamps are set to go digital forever this summer. Royal Mail originally announced this … Read more

The strangest things to have been sent through the post

September 11, 2019 by Lucy Williams
An Irish Terrier like the one posted through the mail

The most common things to be sent through the Royal Mail postal system are letters and simple parcels, which are often packaged in boxes or … Read more

A guide to the Mail Rail in London

June 21, 2019 by Lucy Williams
A red Royal Mail postbox

Those with interest in ‘snail mail’ and/or London history will be delighted to learn all about the Mail Rail — the underground railway system that … Read more

How are British postage stamps designed?

November 25, 2021May 30, 2019 by Lucy Williams
postage stamps

Even those of us who don’t have pen pals still send the occasional letter through the post — whether it’s a business letter, or a … Read more

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