Once the Perth Exhibition at the Dewers Centre, Perth had closed its doors the Hytech Next Generation ‘Twins’, machines A1 and A2 were moved to the foyer of the Queen’s Hotel, Perth. The Overprint applied to the Union Flag and Machin head stamps did not change- but the receipt was updated to reflect […]

Royal Mail will be providing two ‘Next Generation’ Post & Go Units at Perth 2012. These units are A1 and A2 and had their debut at Autumn Stampex in September 2012. The units have a card payment terminal and take card payments only. The units are standalone in that they only need a power socket to be active, and are designed to self serve. The screen angle can be adjusted and there is even a hook for bags / umbrellas etc.
In operation all activity is via a simple touch screen menu where a variety of stamp combinations can be purchased.
Each unit has three reels, made up of two stamp vending reels and a large receipt reel.
Each stamp purchased is vended with a unique number and optionally an overprint, depending on the reel chosen. Stamp reels may change during the course of an exhibition. One of the machines will use the unique overprint available only at Perth:
PERTH 2012
19-22 OCTOBER
The stamps to be used are the Union Flag and Machin head.
Collectors may purchase individual stamps via on screen buttons or use the ‘Collectors Strip’ buttons to print all six price variants of the stamps on each reel.
Multiple purchases can be made in the same session, each purchase can have multiple quantities.
Each individual purchase receives its own receipt. An overall receipt and a credit card receipt are also printed.

For Autumn Stampex 2012 , Royal Mail unveiled its new ‘Hytech V2’ Hytech Post and Go kiosks. These are the culmination of the various trial and tests carried out over the last four shows has resulted in a new design of kiosk that can be deployed to various locations- shows etc. The kiosks were sited […]

It appears that Post Office Ltd have been looking at ways of improving the “customer journey” when a “Certificate of Posting” is required when using the Post and Go machines in a Post Office. In most cases you have to visit the ‘Fastdrop’ counter and have the barcode added (Where required) and  CoP datestamped.  In […]

Royal Mail have confirmed that they have completed their trials of Hytech Self-Service equipment and will now introduce a updated and improved set of Hytech equipment. The new machines will include for the first time a ‘fixed’ machine identifier which will link to a ‘series type’ for example  the ‘A’ Series will be self-service. This […]

At Birmingham ten machines have been reduced to nine Machine no.1 has been removed and machine no.9 moved into its place. At Cambridge as part of the program to upgrade branches by adding more Post & Go kiosks a third kiosk has been added . This kiosk has incorrectly been configured with the ‘old’ Branch […]

On June 30th the Post Office branch in Dorchester, Dorset has been updated with a new Post and Go machine. The branch details are:- [table] [attr style=”width:20px”]Code,Branch Name,Address,Town,Postcode. 200518, Dorchester Post Office, Trinity Street, Dorchester, DT1 1DH [/table] An updated full list of all the Post and Go branches is here :- Full list of […]

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An incorrectly re-wound part roll of Machin Head faststamps has given rise to a spectacular ‘Inverted Head’ error at the self-service facility at Ludgate Circus (Tudor street) .      

On 21st May 2012, Royal Mail are due to issue an updated Post and Go stamp version of the Union Flag stamp originally issued in 2001  in honour of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. This will be available from Royal Mail in the usual ‘Pack’ format (at a bargain face value of 60p) as well as […]