It's 12 months since I started the last post on usage of special stamps in a normal period of use, usually reckoned to be up to six months after issue. There are so many new issues nowadays that unless people specifically want to use one from a particular set, you are likely to use the latest one that they can get. With Christmas coming it's a chance for some examples of the less common Large Letter and Airmail Christmas stamps to make an appearance.
But first some older ones which were provided by readers.
2nd class dog stamp issued in June used in September 2024
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| 2nd class dog stamp issued June 2024 used in September. |
2nd class Churchill stamp issued 30 November used 19 December 2024.
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| 2nd class Churchill stamp issued 30 November used 19 December 2024. |
Valour & Victory Stamps used in the months after issue
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| Valour & Victory 1st class stamp, featuring Lillian Bader, used 29/07/2025 |
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| Valour & Victory Thomas Pierson Frank used 26/08/2025. |
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| Valour & Victory Mahinder Singh Pujii, used from Cornwall 24/09/2025. |
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| Valour & Victory William Tutte, Bletchley Park Codebreaker, used from Cornwall, 18/10/2025. |
Dungeons and Dragons: a reader in the Phillipines wanted the D&D set, so these are two covers I sent to have them properly used. A pair of 1st class, a pair of £2.50 and a 10p definitive paid the rate for International Signed For. Contrived philatelic? of course, but still used at the right time.
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| Se-tenant pair of 1st class Monopoly stamps paying the £3.40 rateto Canada November 2025 |
Christmas 2025 - we'll all get some, but how many of us will get all of them?
2nd class on postcard used internally
£3.40 airmail rate to Canada used 14 November (thanks to SS).
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| 2025 Christmas £3.40 (airmail rate) to Canada 14/11/2025 |
Will there be more? Of course, it would be especially nice to see the Queen Victoria stamps on stamps. Send us scans and we will add them here.
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