New additions to modern usage of British postal stationery series

 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, and I did not think to ask the clerk to stamp it at the counter, who was already annoyed after I asked to stick on the Horizon label myself; he usually doesn't align them very well.

 

 The other item is much more recent, something I found going through old postal stuff from years ago.

 


 A special delivery bag paid up to 500 grams, used when we had something to do with the home office. Honestly, I feel like the home office may be the #1 use of these. It has an interesting tracking label, and the code starts with ZI, not something I've seen before. No postmark, and I don't know if it's just typical Royal Mail IT or if the records are too old, but I can't seem to load the tracking information.

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