Royal Mail barcoding stamps - existing stamps valid only until 31 Jan 2023

soolin

RoadToRiches said:

soolin said:

RoadToRiches said:

I have a stash of 2nd class stamps that I bought for 19p back in the 1990's

I understand that I need to get these swapped at the Post Office / Royal Mail.

These stamps were bought before they went Small and Large size stamps.  If I have to swap these out will I be able to claim the Large Letter stamp price?

If they say ‘19p’ on them then you will get 19p, if they say 2nd class then you will get new 2nd class stamps in return , I don’t see why you would expect to get large letter stamps? 

Cause you can get 2nd Small and 2nd Large stamps now, but the small and large were not available back then. And yes mine have 1st and 2nd on them.

They will still allow you to post a letter though exactly as 2nd class did when you bought the stamps. Large letter is a new service, there was nothing equivalent so you could not have purchased LL stamps, so have nothing to exchange on a like for like basis.

I wonder when more information about the swap scheme will be available? 

RoadToRiches

soolin said:

RoadToRiches said:

soolin said:

RoadToRiches said:

I have a stash of 2nd class stamps that I bought for 19p back in the 1990's

I understand that I need to get these swapped at the Post Office / Royal Mail.

These stamps were bought before they went Small and Large size stamps.  If I have to swap these out will I be able to claim the Large Letter stamp price?

If they say ‘19p’ on them then you will get 19p, if they say 2nd class then you will get new 2nd class stamps in return , I don’t see why you would expect to get large letter stamps? 

Cause you can get 2nd Small and 2nd Large stamps now, but the small and large were not available back then. And yes mine have 1st and 2nd on them.

They will still allow you to post a letter though exactly as 2nd class did when you bought the stamps. Large letter is a new service, there was nothing equivalent so you could not have purchased LL stamps, so have nothing to exchange on a like for like basis.

I wonder when more information about the swap scheme will be available? 

like for like there was no restriction on size of envelope when I bought these stamps, so this is why I am querying if large is the equivalent stamp.

custardy

RoadToRiches said:

soolin said:

RoadToRiches said:

soolin said:

RoadToRiches said:

I have a stash of 2nd class stamps that I bought for 19p back in the 1990's

I understand that I need to get these swapped at the Post Office / Royal Mail.

These stamps were bought before they went Small and Large size stamps.  If I have to swap these out will I be able to claim the Large Letter stamp price?

If they say ‘19p’ on them then you will get 19p, if they say 2nd class then you will get new 2nd class stamps in return , I don’t see why you would expect to get large letter stamps? 

Cause you can get 2nd Small and 2nd Large stamps now, but the small and large were not available back then. And yes mine have 1st and 2nd on them.

They will still allow you to post a letter though exactly as 2nd class did when you bought the stamps. Large letter is a new service, there was nothing equivalent so you could not have purchased LL stamps, so have nothing to exchange on a like for like basis.

I wonder when more information about the swap scheme will be available? 

like for like there was no restriction on size of envelope when I bought these stamps, so this is why I am querying if large is the equivalent stamp.

and the stamps you have now arent valid for LL. So you will be swapping like for like..........

cx6

I guess what the OP is saying is that when they bought them they WERE valid for LL ie they could have been used then to post what we now call a LL

So if the stamp could have been used to post a 'LL' back then (even if it wasn't called a LL) why should it not be exchanged for a stamp that can do the same thing today?

jon81uk

cx6 said:

I guess what the OP is saying is that when they bought them they WERE valid for LL ie they could have been used then to post what we now call a LL

So if the stamp could have been used to post a 'LL' back then (even if it wasn't called a LL) why should it not be exchanged for a stamp that can do the same thing today?

Pricing in Proportion was introduced in 2006. So those stamps haven’t been valid for large letters for almost sixteen years!
If they were going to allow people to exchange the stamps for the standard letters to the more expensive ones then they would have offered it back in 2006.
But in reality they introduced a more expensive service so why would they. 

soolin

I may be misremembering but didn't there used to be a low weight limit on letters- and it was raised to 100g when PIP came in?

MSE_James

Yes the weight limit for letters used to be 60g before PIP came in.

custardy

I guess what the OP is saying is that when they bought them they WERE valid for LL ie they could have been used then to post what we now call a LL

So if the stamp could have been used to post a 'LL' back then (even if it wasn't called a LL) why should it not be exchanged for a stamp that can do the same thing today?

Irrelevant. The stamps they hold now dont. Haven't done for approaching two decades and will soon be simple bits of paper
So swap them like for like or leave them in a drawer

londoner62

I suspect the only reason there is a closing date for the like for like swap is that the PO must have an idea of how many stamps are in the publics hands and the value of the unswapped stamps will go towards settling the liabilities incurred from the wrongful prosecutions for fraud. 

NBLondon

custardy said:

So swap them like for like or leave them in a drawer

Or create brilliant artwork with them and sell that on Etsy