I'm sorry there has not been much added here recently but that it largely down to far fewer instances of mail being surcharged, and less confusion over validity. It also seems that the crackdown on the use of forged definitive and commemorative stamps is paying off, as there haven't been many of these either.
I've today added to this post Proactive methods to avoid surcharged or delayed mail
The "less confusion over validity" reminded me of a conversation with one of my posties about 10 days ago. He was getting my signature on a SD item from a dealer and commented that I was lucky not to be surcharged for the "invalid" QEII commems the sender had used, as he thought that only barcoded stamps were valid. I THINK I persuaded him that commems since 1971 were still OK, but if posties are confused, what chance to the general public have?
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