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Well this is a bit odd.
I bought an old book off ebay (Nurse! by Giles - published to mark the 60th anniversary of the NHS in the 1970s)
Turns up really promptly the the envelope bristling with stamps - a conventional first class stamp, and a bunch of low denomination picture stamps - 10p, 35p, 6p and four at £15½p.
15½p struck me as a bit odd
A quick google shows that 15½p stamps were last issued in 1982. The 10p stamp is Jersey's Christmas 1981 stamp - the 35p is Jersey's commemoration of the 1996 European football championships - the 6p stamp is from Gurnsey in 1979.
Despite the prevalent channel islands them on the stamps the package was sent from Lincolnshire.
Has some sort of hole been torn in the space-time continuum or is this just normal now?
Stamp dealers buy job lots of stamps, old collections, and the like. Most stamps are worthless, some valuable, some still legal. You can buy job lots of the still legal ones on eBay or at fairs/car boots for a bit under face value. Handy if you run a small mail order business or post a lot of Christmas cards
Post apocalyptic innit.
I think the NHS is only 72 year old now.
As for the stamps, it's odd, but it probably came from someone older who never throws anything away. I had to check, but 1st class stamps are 85p now!
It's a good thing the RM were able to use all the efficacy when freed from the grasp of public ownership or it would me much, much higher. Otherwise, why did The Government sell it to their mates?
I inherited my aunts stamp collection. They are all just worth their face value so I use them at Christmas to post cards, including some rather nice ones from when we joined the EU.
I think the NHS is only 72 year old now.
My mistake - the book is dates from the 70s but there was also a later reissue to mark the 60th anniversary. The 60 year factoid must have stuck in my head from browsing for a copy
i was wondering if the person who sold you the book is selling off their partner’s prided possessions and using their stamp collection for postage as a form of revenge.
I have hundreds of unused old stamps bought from a charity shop, there are plenty of 1/2p denominations but as long as they add up to the current price of a first or second class stamp then it’s all good.
Photo?
I was sure JRM has got his hands on the Royal Mail for a second....
The stamps issued in Jersey and Guernsey are not valid for posting in the UK, but lots of under-stamped mail often gets through. I once received mail with no stamps at all - from Jersey!
Photo?
Of who or what?
I was sure JRM has got his hands on the Royal Mail for a second….
He'd insist on pounds shillings and pence.