EDI Postal

 For many years, Scout movements in the UK have offered "Scout Post" services in which they deliver mainly greeting cards during the Christmas season. These offer a cheaper and charitable alternative to Royal Mail while sending cards locally.  While the peak of these ended many years ago, and the Edinburgh one has been defunct for over 15 years, these still do occasionally pop up. This year, the nearest one to me that I could find was in Fife. Fife Scout Christmas Post poster for 2025    I don't live in fife, but I left an envelope with a Royal Mail stamp and a post-it note asking for them to forward it here, after paying the 50p donation. Unfortunately no paper stamps were available, you just threw in a donation and chucked the envelope in a transparent box. Cover with "SCOUTPOST" pictorial postmarks forwarded to Edinburgh     I also sent a few to an address in the area which I later picked up.    Cover with "SCOUTPOST" pictorial postmark sent t...

 Hi.  This one is quite a bit older compared to the stuff I did previously.     I used a "Registered letter" valued at 69p to pay part of the £2.77 2nd class signed for letter rate. The rest is paid by a 2L horizon label.   I don't know exactly how old this envelope is. It has to be after decimalisation as it gives the value in "p" and not "d", but I believe it must be from the 70's or early 80's if it is old enough to be from days when less less than todays 2nd class rate could pay for a registered item that was seemingly considered quite large. The back calls it an "H" size envelope.  It was actually a bit of a chore finding an envelope made post-decimal, without half pennies to avoid confusion from my postal clerk, without extra pre-barcode machins stuck on or hand-stamps for revaluation, that was big enough to have both a Horizon label and modern Signed For label.  Unfortunately the Mail Centre did not apply a machine postmark, an...

 Hi.   I haven't seen any recent lists of service indicators used on Post Office Horizon labels, so I've made one, based on existing older ones.   I used a number of sources, including postagelabelsuk.com, norphil.co.uk, stu1967.co.uk and eBay.   I'm not sure on details regarding some of them, but I hope I'm not missing a lot of the codes.   I am trying to get as much of these as possible, and there is also different variations such as Welsh language labels, tax codes, the actual labels, fonts, etc. without even mentioning the 2d barcod type labels and miscellaneous others.    1st/1af    RM      1st Class - Now only Articles for the Blind 1L     RM     1st Class Letter     Usage restricted to Recorded Signed For 2L     RM     2nd Class Letter     Usage restricted to Recorded Signed For 1LG     RM     1st Class...