USA TODAY Royal Mail paints box in wrong town goldParcel2Go.comWe've been keeping you regularly updated with news about Royal Mail's highly commendable efforts to mark the achievements of all of Team GB's Olympic gold medals winners. It seems now we have had the first instance of things going awry, as, …
Read More »Going for Gold: Royal Mail Issues Olympian Stamps – ABC News
STLtoday.com (blog) Going for Gold: Royal Mail Issues Olympian StampsABC NewsInstead of portraits of the queen, Britain is getting kings and queens of sports. The Royal Mail has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for gold medalists. The stamps …
Read More »Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stamps – Arizona Daily Sun
Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stampsArizona Daily SunThe Royal Mail has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for gold medalists. The stamps feature the athlete in an action photo taken as they were competing _ and with …
Read More »Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stamps – NBC 29 News
Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stampsNBC 29 NewsThe Royal Mail is has been busy paying tribute to the country's Olympians in the last two weeks with special issue stamps for gold medalists. The stamps feature the athlete in an action photo taken as they were competing – and …
Read More »Britain’s Royal Mail in hot water over gold medal Paralympic discrimination
While most of Great Britain celebrates surpassing the nation's prescribed pre-Olympics total medals target, the Royal Mail service has found a way to embroil itself in a political snafu after it admitted that it would not issue stamps for winners of gold medals in the Paralympic Games , as it …
Read More »Golden mailbox: Ultimate tribute for British athletes, with occasional … – North County Times (blog)
TennisEarth.com Golden mailbox: Ultimate tribute for British athletes, with occasional …North County Times (blog)Laura Trott won double gold in cycling for Team GB, and the Royal Mail honored her by painting a mailbox in Harlow in Essex, which the official team roster listed as her place of birth. Which it …
Read More »Wrong postbox gets gold makeover
Royal Mail paints the wrong postbox gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles. More: continued here
Read More »Hate mail: Jessica Ennis’ gold postbox daubed with graffiti – Mirror.co.uk
Belfast Telegraph Hate mail: Jessica Ennis' gold postbox daubed with graffitiMirror.co.ukA new layer of gold has been applied by a Royal Mail engineer, a Sheffield City Council spokeswoman said. Royal Mail said it did not know what the graffiti said as an engineer repaired the damage very quickly as "a …
Read More »Golden mailbox: Ultimate tribute for British athletes, with occasional … – Houston Chronicle (blog)
BBC News Golden mailbox: Ultimate tribute for British athletes, with occasional …Houston Chronicle (blog)Tea with a royal? Getting name-dropped on “EastEnders”? Having a meat pie named in their honor? How about this: Seeing one of those iconic red postboxes in their hometown painted gold by the Royal Mail, to signify …
Read More »Daily Express, Dutch, BMX, Royal Mail, FIFA, Little London Girl – The Independent (blog)
The Independent (blog) Daily Express, Dutch, BMX, Royal Mail, FIFA, Little London GirlThe Independent (blog)Royal Mail. Twitter grumbles about Royal Mail plans to put all the paraolympians on one stamp, while able-bodied TeamGB medalists each get their own. A blow to equality? Or a fuss over nothing? @ParaolympicsGB don't seem …
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