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mark occomore
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 Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:51 am Post subject: Off with your head ( Stamps ) |
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Apparently if the Royal Mail is sold off the Queens head could be removed from stamps. Buckinham Palace are thrashing out a deal to save. Yes Ma'am..........
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/414880.php
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This would be very controversial. Maybe Vince Cable could impress the Queen with his dancing on strictly when he appears on the BBC 1 Christmas special, and she will save his head.
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MadeinSurrey
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"Apparently if the Royal Mail is sold off the Queens head could be removed.....This would be very controversial."
Erm...it would indeed, Marko!!
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Sadie Su
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Oh no
Don't tell Chris Evans
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SantaFefan
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I don't think it would bother me anyway... mind you, they'd have to have some neck to take her head off..
Maybe the stamps could feature Radio 2 DJs?
Steve Wright for First Class and Richard Allinson for Second Class? 
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Clive55
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I rekon Nick Clegg wants to remove the Queens' head from the stamps in the hope that his would replace it
What an awful prospect |
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Clive55
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| SantaFefan wrote: | I don't think it would bother me anyway... mind you, they'd have to have some neck to take her head off..
Maybe the stamps could feature Radio 2 DJs?
Steve Wright for First Class and Richard Allinson for Second Class? |
Chris evans head would be quickly identifiable. Lots of ginger |
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SantaFefan
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the stamps would be too big if they featured him...
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | the stamps would be too big if they featured him... |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Off with your head ( Stamps ) |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Maybe Vince Cable could impress the Queen with his dancing on strictly when he appears on the BBC 1 Christmas special, and she will save his head. |
Is his head on the stamps as well? King Vince?? |
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Schizoidman
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Such is Gingerknob's ubiquity that I really wouldn't be surprised if Evans' head did appear on postage stamps.
He'll soon be on all our coins as well (now that's a good reason to join the Euro). |
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: Off with your head ( Stamps ) |
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| mark occomore wrote: |
This would be very controversial. Maybe Vince Cable could impress the Queen with his dancing on strictly when he appears on the BBC 1 Christmas special, and she will save his head. |
I read online Mr Clegg isn't too happy with him for doing that.... |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| It is just a stamp though- on the one hand I'm thinking - yeah but they're our stamps- we want the Queen on them... and on the other hand I'm thinking , do I really care that much - on a lot of stamps the Queen's head is so small you can hardly see it anyway- if the Germans buy the Royal Mail at least the post will come on time.. and that's more important than the stamp. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| At 46p for a First Class stamp (as of April 2011) nobody will be buying them so it's all academic really. |
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becky sharp
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| Nearly ten bob in old money.... |
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John W
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| becky sharp wrote: | | Nearly ten bob in old money.... |
Yeah but Becky, in old money, in 1970, average wage was about £20 a week.
Multiply 20 times for today, so in old money today's stamp is less than 3p or about 6d.
Yeah?
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becky sharp
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Nothing like a moan though,John, is there?...even if it isn't justified.....  |
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John W
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Nothing like a moan about an unjustified moan, Becks!
Just checked a 1970 commemerative stamp set from 1970, the cheapest stamp was 5d so the comparison with today's 46p is about right (if ~ x20 inflation)
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RockitRon
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Since £1 today is worth about 9p in 1971 terms that's about right.
As Rach says, it is just a stamp, and the Queen's head is much reduced in comparison to days of yore. Fixing a stamp to a letter is a pretty archaic practice - I'm surprised they don't sell more printed postage-paid envelopes.
As for delivery times, the RM isn't all bad. I posted two parcels last week and they both got to their destinations more than 100 miles away next day; my son's office is still awaiting items sent "Next Day" by two of the private courier companies, from a similar distance last Wednesday.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:10 am Post subject: |
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IF I had spent lots of money buying RM out (I really hope it isn't sold though) then surely I can have what I want on the stamps ? after all it is just a proof of payment for the service >?
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SantaFefan
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But then... it shouldn't be called "Royal" Mail...
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | But then... it shouldn't be called "Royal" Mail... |
you might find it gets called something like DHL or TNT
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