Following on from the previous post of an Antigua stamp being accepted through the mail at Sheffield Mail Centre, JW has sent this image from Reddit of a Christmas stamp being rejected by Royal Mail's Revenue Protection team somewhere.
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| Christmas 2010 1st class stamp declared invalid in 2025. |
This one has a 2010 1st class Wallace & Gromit Christmas stamp which has been declared 'No Longer Valid for Postage'. I'm hesitant to say that this label hasn't been reported before - I certainly can't recall it but surely it has been recorded somewhere?
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| Surcharge label with QR code - try it, it works! |
Ironically, if Revenue Protection officers who applied this label had scanned the code it would have taken them to the Royal Mail app, specifically this page:
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| From the Royal Mail app Swap Out Scheme page |
Whilst the 2010 stamp isn't shown, there is a Christmas stamp there. Basically it's nonsense, incompetent and it's about time Revenue Protection sorted themselves out.
And if they can't get it right, why should the general public?
There are over 50 comments on that Reddit thread at least 7 users were telling everybody else, sometimes repeatedly, that all stamps had to have baarcodes. One of the people putting them right was a postmaster however, so hopefully seven more people now know the true position. Sadly none of them appear to work for Revenue Protection.
But back to the QR code - has anyone seen this before?
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