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

misterthrifty

Is anybody else having delays having their stamps exchanged? I sent a load off to them at the start of August, they told me 2 weeks ago that they would be sending them out but today they say that the postal strikes have delayed things. The package has been sitting there for weeks and they can't say when it will be sent out with more strike days coming up. This is very frustrating and I don't see why they can't just post them?!

custardy

misterthrifty said:

Is anybody else having delays having their stamps exchanged? I sent a load off to them at the start of August, they told me 2 weeks ago that they would be sending them out but today they say that the postal strikes have delayed things. The package has been sitting there for weeks and they can't say when it will be sent out with more strike days coming up. This is very frustrating and I don't see why they can't just post them?!

I would expect some staff doing this work are CWU grade. So potentially part of the strikes
Then with back logs, these staff could be pulled back to perform mail pipeline based work

kalsha

Hi,  Can someone tell me if this stamp can be swapped?  It is a mint 1993 Britannia £10 stamp.  I am sure someone had posted something about a similar stamp but I can't find it now. 
So question is has anyone been successful in swapping this stamp?

NBLondon

kalsha said:

Hi,  Can someone tell me if this stamp can be swapped?  

Yes - It's on the list at https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2022-03/Stamp-Images-for-swap-out.pdf 

You might get 2x £5 barcoded as a replacement as there is no new barcoded £10 or you might get a lot of barcoded second class...

martindow

kalsha said:

Hi,  Can someone tell me if this stamp can be swapped?  It is a mint 1993 Britannia £10 stamp.  I am sure someone had posted something about a similar stamp but I can't find it now. 
So question is has anyone been successful in swapping this stamp?

Is htere any chance this is worth more than face value?  I know that most stamps are not worth their nominal value, but I imagine that this one is possibly fairly unusual and only produced in small quantities.

kalsha

NBLondon said:

kalsha said:

Hi,  Can someone tell me if this stamp can be swapped?  

Yes - It's on the list at https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2022-03/Stamp-Images-for-swap-out.pdf 

You might get 2x £5 barcoded as a replacement as there is no new barcoded £10 or you might get a lot of barcoded second class...

Thank you for the prompt reply.   What about these regional ones and higher value ones?  Shame that I will be breaking up the presentation packs but they are not fetching much on Ebay. 

NBLondon

kalsha said:

Thank you for the prompt reply.   What about these regional ones and higher value ones?  Shame that I will be breaking up the presentation packs but they are not fetching much on Ebay. 

All swappable.  The High Values will be replaced by barcoded equivalents, the rest by their equivalent in barcoded 2nd class.  If you've got a lot of the regionals you could use some combinations to make up postage then swap the rest. e.g.  2x28p + 39p = 95p 1st Class   ( Try https://stampulator.sroot.eu/ ) 

Money_Grabber13579

I see the Daily Express is publishing misleading information about the validity of existing stamps.

In a few months' time Queen Elizabeth II stamps will no longer be valid, according to Royal Mail.

To be clear, the passing of Queen Elizabeth II has changed nothing (yet) with regards to validity of stamps and so the only stamps which will become invalid in a few months time are those definitive stamps which Royal Mail announced would be invalidated at the start of 2022 - this does not affect all QEII stamps, as insinuated by the above sentence.

Doc_N

Money_Grabber13579 said:

I see the Daily Express is publishing misleading information about the validity of existing stamps.

In a few months' time Queen Elizabeth II stamps will no longer be valid, according to Royal Mail.

To be clear, the passing of Queen Elizabeth II has changed nothing (yet) with regards to validity of stamps and so the only stamps which will become invalid in a few months time are those definitive stamps which Royal Mail announced would be invalidated at the start of 2022 - this does not affect all QEII stamps, as insinuated by the above sentence.

That's the Express comic for you. About as reliable for facts as a Russian news bulletin. 

NBLondon

Money_Grabber13579 said:

I see the Daily Express is publishing misleading information about the validity of existing stamps.

 

Given the way that the SwapOut scheme has been misreported, it's not at all surprising.