Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Pictorial Faststamps: Pigs - 24 April 2012

Royal Mail continues its venture to the farm in 2012 with the second in a new series of Post and Go stamps. This isssue shows some of the many traditional breeds of pigs to be found on farms in the UK.   Post & Go terminals allow customers to weigh their letters and packets, pay for and print postage labels and stamps without the need to visit the counter. The first Post & Go machine was trialled in The Galleries Post Office® in Bristol in 2008.

The labels can be obtained with 5 different service indicators: 1st class up to 100g & 1st class Large up to 100g, Europe up to 20g, Worldwide up to 10g and 20g, and the new Worldwide 40g.  The stamps are dispensed singly or in strips of up to 5 of the same value or various values. Thus there are 30/36 different value/design combinations in total.   

Technical details:

Designed by Kate Stephens and illustrated by Robert Gillmor the six 56mm x 25mm stamps are printed in gravure by Walsall Security Printers, with two phosphor bars.  The stamps in the pack will have the service indicator and other detail printed in gravure.   All images are by kind permission of Royal Mail, Copyright 2010/1. This website is copyright Norvic Philatelics 2010/1.

Products issued

The labels will be used in Post & Go machines at Post Offices around the country.
A mint set will also be available from Royal Mail's Tallents House Bureau in a pack similar to a presentation pack. All values in the pack are 1st Class with a philatelic branch code of 002012.

Although Post & Go machines are a Post Office Ltd product, Royal Mail will again produce a First Day Cover and official First Day Postmarks for these.


Special Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue will be shown here, others may be added later.

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This page updated 4 December 2011
2012 stamp issues
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January
5 Olympic & Paralympic Definitives
10 Roald Dahl (author)
20 Year of the Dragon Smilers
 February
2 House of Windsor & Saxe-Coburg
6 Diamond Jubilee MS & definitive
23 Britons of Distinction
24 Pictorial Faststamps - Sheep
 March
8 Classic Locomotives of Scotland MS
20 World of Comics
26? Machin & Country Definitives
 April
10 A-Z of the United Kingdom part 2, M-Z
24 Pictorial Faststamps - Pigs
 May
15 Design Classics, Great British Fashion
24 Union Flag Pictorial Faststamp
31 HM The Queen Diamond Jubilee set
 June
19 Charles Dickens
July
27 Welcome to the London 2012 Olympic Games

 August
29 Welcome to the London 2012 Paralympic Games
 September
27 Memories of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
28 Pictorial Faststamps - Cattle		 October
16 World of Dinosaurs
30 Space Science
 November
8 Christmas

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