Silly Question re: postage

soolin

tryingtogetsolvent wrote: »

Nope they are NOT plain white labels, they are pre-printed large gold coloured stamps.
As for my pal, he's adamant that is the practice at his sorting office but obviously you know better than him....

The only gold ones I've seen are used instead of the white labels and are printed out at the PO when they take your parcel, they have an embossed queens head on a gold background and come in any denomination that the printer prints out. I have not seen a large gold stamp that can be bought in *any* denomination. The only other proper large gold stamps are the 1st class large letter, and yes I do use them.

So basically your mate is saying that I can go to the Post office and ask to buy a sheet of £1.95 stamps and a sheet of say £2.36 single stamps that I can take home with me and use on my packets?

Custardy, have i missed something really vital here, can I really buy any denomination of stamp that I want only none of the places i use in London sell anything other than the basic denominations.

Crowqueen

I think TTGS is saying that the labels have changed. I think it's just awkward wording.

They're still adamant that letters without them with more than one ordinary stamp are hand-sorted, which their mate swears is true.

TTGS: can you point us to some information that would confirm this? If it was actually a rule, there might be some explanation, official or unofficial, somewhere that defined the rule.

soolin

I've phoned the RM shop where I order all my stamps and they are insisting I cna only buy stamps in the pre printed denominations that show in the online shop here:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/shop;jsessionid=3DCYV1WX5GVQ4FB2IGVESPQUHRA0WQ2K?catId=9300091&pageId=shp_prdlist&category=cat45940009&gear=shop

When I asked about large gold stamps that can be ordered in any denomination she said it was not possible, but believed it was possibly just the 1st class large letter stamp that I meant. She confirmed that RM cannot sell me stamps showing a denomination of £1.95 or £2.36 .

If anyone else comes across these large gold stamps that can be bought let me know as they would be ideal for my business.

soolin

Crowqueen wrote: »

I think TTGS is saying that the labels have changed. I think it's just awkward wording.

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TTGS is quite adamant that these are not the new replacement for the white labels but actual stamps. AS custardy pointed out they have now got large value stamps for special or recorded I thought it worth trying the official RM shop just in case I can order pre printed stamps in any denomination as a sheet of £1.95 stamps would be a boon for me.

As I cannot go to a PO to have labels printed for my mail I am stuck with a multitude of stamps on my parcels. It makes me good at maths though working out how few stamps i need to reach each denomination.

custardy

this?

they're not stamps,simply a fancier design superseding the 'old' plain horizon stickers

Strapped

soolin wrote: »

The collectors sets .

For instance this one:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/shop?catId=9300091&pageType=Others&pageId=shp_prddetails&product=prod96500009&productType=0&parentCategoryId=cat95990007&categoryId=cat95990010

includes a 60p and a 97 p stamp which are for overseas weights.

I do buy a few of these sets just to get the odd 81p stamps or 97p ones for the US.

Ah, I see thanks, although that would be no good for me as I send about 10 - 20 per day at the moment. It's a pain having to either use 3 stamps (2nd LL 51p + 10p + 20p) or get them done at the PO or buy online labels. Sometimes I stick a 2nd LL stamp (51p) and a 2nd ordinary letter stamp (32p) on but I begrudge the extra 2p!

Strapped

custardy wrote: »

this?

they're not stamps,simply a fancier design superseding the 'old' plain horizon stickers

I understand that they changed to these as they're harder to forge? They look more expensive to produce though (and I hear they're jamming up printers too in a lot of POs).