EDI Postal

 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...

 Hi.   Prepaid postal stationery, as in envelopes or items with postage already paid and printed on, is a concept which was once very popular but has now largely died out. This is definitely the case in the UK. I don't mean things like PPI/Account graphics or frankings. I have 2 items to share.    The first is still used and has been for many years, a House of Commons envelope. These are available to members of parliament to mainly reply to their constituents' enquiries.        My example was interestingly postmarked at Edinburgh Mail Centre, where the constituency is, and not Mount Pleasant or another London area facility. Two-wave postmark often used on non-standard size/type mail. Date 07/03/2025(?)      One thing to note is how both items shown here have the Machin image used to represent Queen Elizabeth II. Of course, we have a new monarch, so while the second item is now discontinued, the House of Commons envelopes join a stil...

 Hi, and welcome to this new blog. I had a number of interesting items to share but nowhere to share them, so hopefully things I post here will find their way onto, for example, Google images.    Cecogrammes, meaning literature for the blind, are a UPU-mandated type of postage material that may be sent free of charge by, in the UK's case, 1st class mail, or by the standard Air Mail service to another country. Registration fees and such must be paid seperately. They typically include text encoded (or punched) onto a piece of paper in Braille, for the blind or partially sighted to read. However, other materials, such as audio CD's/cassettes with text recorded read aloud or Braille printers are also eligible. It is used/talked about in differing extents in different countries, but in the UK it is well described on both Royal Mail and Post Office websites (even if specific instructions or details are missing or outdated.)   I first became interested in these when, furing...