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The move to phase out stamps without a barcode is an “exciting new chapter in stamps”, according to a leading philatelist.
From Tuesday, letters and parcels sent using old-style postage stamps will incur a £1.10 fee after Royal Mail phased out the old-style designs.
Under the new rules, letters with the Queen’s profile on a plain background, with no barcode, will be treated as having insufficient postage — meaning the recipient will be asked to pay a surcharge to receive the post.
Following a backlash Royal Mail extended the deadline from the end of February, but Victoria Lajer, managing director of Stanley Gibbons auction house, which was founded in 1856 and describes itself as “the home of stamp collecting”, said stamp lovers should welcome the
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