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Stamps

July 2024

  • Close-up of two Victorian stamps with heavy franking on them on an envelope, one. a red penny stamp and the other a red-orange fourpenny stamp

    In for a Penny Red … UK’s ‘most valuable’ stamp goes up for sale at £650,000

    Rare, flawed version of Victorian stamp is one of a batch destroyed in the 1860s for being defective

May 2024

  • A stamp featuring a photo of a baguette on a white background overdrawn with a French tricolour ribbon and the words 'La baguette de pain française'

    French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

    ‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’

April 2024

  • Hand posting a letter with a barcoded stamp into a red letterbox

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Counterfeit barcode stamps furore carries echoes of Horizon scandal

    Royal Mail admits its scanners ‘make mistakes’ but stands by the process it uses to detect fakes as ‘robust’

January 2024

  • Close up of steaming cup of tea on vintage table

    Brief letters
    The fishy flavour of lapsang souchong

  • Some of the new Spice Girls stamps.

    Royal Mail’s Spice Girls stamp collection marks band’s 30th anniversary

November 2023

  • The traditional parade during Family Day at Notting Hill Carnival, London, on 27 August 2023

    Notting Hill carnival’s perforated history

  • The 1918 U.S. 24-cent airmail stamps known as the "Inverted Jenny" is seen in this picture<br>The 1918 U.S. 24-cent airmail stamp known as the "Inverted Jenny" is seen in this picture from November 2, 2005. A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot in Tuesday's congressional election, a government official said Friday. The 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp, which takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside-down, turned up Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale, where election officials were inspecting ballots from parts of south Florida, Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom told Reuters. post mail

    Rare 1918 ‘Inverted Jenny’ US stamp sells for record-setting $2m

  • Undated handout photo issued by Royal Mail of one of their new set of stamps honouring Dame Shirley Bassey showing her at the BBC Electric Proms, The Roundhouse, 2009. This is the first time Royal Mail has dedicated an entire stamp issue to a solo female music artist.

    There’s no shortage of first-class black Britons to feature on postage stamps

  • Paterson Joseph performs his novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho in St Margaret's Church, London, on 12 October 2023. A new memorial to Sancho will be unveiled in the church in December.

    Brief letters
    Two black heroes on slave trade abolition stamp series

October 2023

  • Floella Benjamin

    ‘She campaigned tirelessly’: Guardian readers nominate Black Britons worthy of a postage stamp

    After an all-star panel told us who they would celebrate to mark Black History Month, we asked readers for their suggestions
  • A composite image of two of Jon Daniels' designs, featuring John R Archer and Mary Seacole

    Jon Daniel and the black Britons who should be on a postage stamp

    Letters: James McCarthy celebrates the late designer who campaigned to put black heroes on stamps. Plus recommendations from Marietta Crichton Stuart, Owen Knight and Jackie King
  • You can tell us your nomination using the form below.

    Tell us which black British figures you’d like to see on a postage stamp

    If you could nominate one black British person from any time in history to appear on a new postage stamp, who would it be?

April 2023

  • Set of four new stamps issued to mark the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

    Royal Mail issues four stamps to mark King Charles III’s coronation

  • Queen Elizabeth looks at a stamp display during a tour of a Royal Mail office to mark the 500th anniversary of the postal service in 2016.

    Cost of the crown
    Revealed: official gifts to royal family contained in £100m ‘private’ stamp collection

March 2023

  • Iris stamp featuring silhouette of King Charles

    First stamps to bear King Charles’s silhouette to be released

    Special set with UK’s favourite flowers including the sunflower and purple iris to feature on collection of 10 stamps

January 2023

  • Steve McQueen and his exhibition Queen and Country at the Imperial War Museum in London, 2010.

    Honour our dead soldiers on stamps

  • One of 12 Iron Maiden stamps, showing Dave Murray, Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers in Rio de Janeiro, January 2001.

    Iron Maiden win Royal Mail seal of approval with 12 stamps

November 2022

  • Ukraine’s state postal service, Ukrposhta, has issued its latest commemorative wartime stamp on Russia’s Unity Day.

    Ukraine issues Crimean Bridge strike stamp on Russia’s Unity Day

    Postal service follows up April’s limited edition stamp celebrating attack on Russian flagship Moskva

October 2022

  • Dale Berning Sawa

    My stash of old stamps is beautiful. Why make them unnecessarily obsolete?

    Dale Berning Sawa
  • One of the new Royal Mail stamps that features a special barcode

    Royal Mail warns there are only 100 days left to use stamps without barcodes

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