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

KeithP

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Oh, I thought the odd ½p weren't counted, thus the value of each stamp was only 8p.
So postage on that letter was only 64p.

soolin

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

jeffuk

There's a lot of it about

kalsha

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

soolin

kalsha said:

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

No, but they are often in smaller amounts and are brilliant for making up odd figures. I also suspect they will be the next to go, perhaps not soon but eventually, so might as well use them now. For instance I send a lot of £1.05 2nd class large letters , I either use a 95p 1st denomination and make the 10p up with oddments or a 68p denomination and again use odds to make up the balance. I had several hundred 5p and 20p denominations on sheets so have been using those as well. 

HonestJohn

soolin said:

kalsha said:

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

No, but they are often in smaller amounts and are brilliant for making up odd figures. I also suspect they will be the next to go, perhaps not soon but eventually, so might as well use them now. For instance I send a lot of £1.05 2nd class large letters , I either use a 95p 1st denomination and make the 10p up with oddments or a 68p denomination and again use odds to make up the balance. I had several hundred 5p and 20p denominations on sheets so have been using those as well. 

Why would RM get rid of commemorative stamps. They have made a lot of money from stamps that will never be used.

soolin

HonestJohn said:

soolin said:

kalsha said:

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

No, but they are often in smaller amounts and are brilliant for making up odd figures. I also suspect they will be the next to go, perhaps not soon but eventually, so might as well use them now. For instance I send a lot of £1.05 2nd class large letters , I either use a 95p 1st denomination and make the 10p up with oddments or a 68p denomination and again use odds to make up the balance. I had several hundred 5p and 20p denominations on sheets so have been using those as well. 

Why would RM get rid of commemorative stamps. They have made a lot of money from stamps that will never be used.

They can just issue new ones with bar codes and make money all over again. 

HonestJohn

soolin said:

HonestJohn said:

soolin said:

kalsha said:

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

No, but they are often in smaller amounts and are brilliant for making up odd figures. I also suspect they will be the next to go, perhaps not soon but eventually, so might as well use them now. For instance I send a lot of £1.05 2nd class large letters , I either use a 95p 1st denomination and make the 10p up with oddments or a 68p denomination and again use odds to make up the balance. I had several hundred 5p and 20p denominations on sheets so have been using those as well. 

Why would RM get rid of commemorative stamps. They have made a lot of money from stamps that will never be used.

They can just issue new ones with bar codes and make money all over again. 

That would ruin the aesthetics. The barcodes are to stop forgery. I don't think anybody copies the commemoratives.

soolin

HonestJohn said:

soolin said:

HonestJohn said:

soolin said:

kalsha said:

soolin said:

molerat said:

Letter received yesterday

68p second class

Yep, that's what mine look like although I have some denominations mixed in as that's what I need to use urgently , although I am now getting down to the last few smaller ones now and sometimes have to use a new barcoded one to make up the last few pence. 

But there is not need to use the commemorative stamps urgently - is there?

No, but they are often in smaller amounts and are brilliant for making up odd figures. I also suspect they will be the next to go, perhaps not soon but eventually, so might as well use them now. For instance I send a lot of £1.05 2nd class large letters , I either use a 95p 1st denomination and make the 10p up with oddments or a 68p denomination and again use odds to make up the balance. I had several hundred 5p and 20p denominations on sheets so have been using those as well. 

Why would RM get rid of commemorative stamps. They have made a lot of money from stamps that will never be used.

They can just issue new ones with bar codes and make money all over again. 

That would ruin the aesthetics. The barcodes are to stop forgery. I don't think anybody copies the commemoratives.

Who knows what the forgers will do next. Perhaps if they can’t forge the new barcoded ones they may well have to forge commemoratives. There’s also the possibility that now RM have the technology to bar code stamps they might just start adding barcodes onto commemoratives at some point in the future and retire the old ones. We will have to wait and see. 

I will continue using up commemoratives to make up costs , I don’t collect stamps so have no reason to keep them and using them and restocking only with new barcoded ones will be easier for me going forward. 

NBLondon

KeithP said:

molerat said:

68p second class

Oh, I thought the odd ½p weren't counted, thus the value of each stamp was only 8p.
So postage on that letter was only 64p.

The 1/2p count if they are in pairs - so a single 8½p stamp counts as 8p but two of them count as 17p.