Postage Stamps

Ah! That explains why I never see any commemorative stamps on my personal mail. Not that I get a lot of personal stuff you understand, it's usually texts and emails these days - even the bills appear in my inbox

However, I have asked for 'special' stamps for youngsters' birthday cards and been told they don't have any. Must do my research in future to check what should be available and then insist they check the safe!

Niece was delighted this week to receive a birthday card with a Mrs Tigglewinkle stamp on, sadly not on my card. I wonder why we are not all offered these celebration stamps, they cheer up the envelopes, so I will ask on future. There us not much point to in post office producing them if no one knows they are available.

Just a tip if you go to a post office that has a self help machine buy your stamps there they change every few months, at the moment they are 6 different stamps with different ladybirds on Not sure what you get for an ordinary internal letter as I buy for a global postcard group I belong to but prior to the ladybirds we have had union jacks, ships, heraldry etc etc they are long stamps They are very pretty and I get lots of good remarks from the recipients

Also all post offices have and will give you on request a little leaflet that tells you when various commeratives are out and on which date there are usually about 10 or similar related amount per year

www.royalmail.com/mrmenstamps?PSID=Google_PPC&cid=EC1016_MRM_SM_01&gclid=Cj0KEQjwhbzABRDHw_i4q6fXoLIBEiQANZKGW4Mw1rzeYb6MPC1SsIzfFd232RwMEgJGF4cnCwlpkdkaAiXv8P8HAQ

I saw these advertised in my local PO yesterday, also the leaflets of commemorative stamps.

Not much you can do, though, especially if it's a small or sub PO, if they swear blind they have no such thing.

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Here you can buy cards which include a stamp with the same picture on it as the card. I buy the flower cards for my Mum and the carers in her care home even commented on how nice the stamps were.

My dd sent cards with stamps that had photos of my gds on them. It was a few years ago, but they were lovely. I must ask her how she got them!

Thanks for all the replies, I shall have another go at asking for them. I did ask for Beatrix Potter when they came out but was told, oh they only sent a few.
I did order them from Royal Mail, but don't get me started on how difficult that was, in end I had to order by phone. Lad in Glasgow office commented that the website was rubbish.

The personalised stamps mentioned by Lona are called Smilers. I have some with pictures of my Bengal cat.
www.royalmail.com/personal/stamps-and-collecting/smilers

Why don't you buy 10 stamps - would it then be worth their while getting a sheet or a booklet out of the safe? You could share the stamps with a couple of other people - everyone has a birthday card to send now and again.

Small sub post offices don't usually have the commemoratives