Commencing 8th June 2009, The UK Post Office commenced an hitherto unannounced trial of a ‘Horizon label’ incorporating a Machin head. This new label, printed by De La Rue was a gold label incorporating a new type of security slit design, described as ‘thumbnail’ .

The purpose of this trial was to establish the ‘usability’ of such labels in a busy operational environment (Camden Town High St Crown Office, London NW1) with a view to a future rollout of the new design labels to further products (This initial trial was limited to all items posted by Royal Mail Special Delivery (Either the 1pm or 9am service).

A limited number of First Day Covers were produced – If you wish to purchase FDC s or other items please visit my Online Shope or my Ebay pages.

Post And Go Labels are getting so popular with collectors that the first forgeries of First Day Covers are now appearing on Ebay! As can be seen from the image below – Labels with a very high session number of 7066, issued from the Galleries Machine  have been stamped with a Glasgow ’10’ Double Ring […]

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The latest ‘Post Office’ to be opened in central London today (Entrance in Tudor Street EC4) – the entrance to the ‘Post and Go’ closet containing four Post and Go machines and two stamp vending machines.. This is the Post Office ‘Outreach’ service for central London. CLICK ON THE ABOVE FOR MORE PICTURES OF THIS […]

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The existing single Post And Go machine at Ludgate Circus Crown Office was decommissioned just before midday today. In an adjoining ‘ Windowless Room’ accessable from Tudor Street four new machines have been installed. These machines accept Card Payments ONLY (No Cash). The branch number appearing on Faststamps and labels is 242007 (- Which suggests […]

Branch (Label Code) Shown on Labels/Stamps Branch Name Number of Machines Projected Go-Live Date Actual Go-Live date 005006 Paddington Quay 2 13/02/2009 TBC 010549 Yeovil 2 04/03/2009 TBC 010925 Ashford (Kent) 2 05/03/2009 TBC 003912 Horsham 2 06/03/2009 TBC 004948 Sevenoaks 2 24/03/2009 TBC 007900 Farnham 2 26/03/2009 TBC

8th October 2008 First Day Cover for sale NOW on Ebay! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160320437366

As part of an overall program of alignment of the ‘set’ of Postage Labels produced for use in  Royal Mails postal system Post and Go machines will commence to dispense ‘Perforated’ labels.  All existing P&G sites will migrate across to these new labels once the existing rolls are used up. It is believed that the first site to use […]