Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stampsSanta Maria TimesThe 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 Britain in third place ……
It is not the fact that the Royal Mail have said they will not produce stamps for each Team GB Paralympic gold medal-winner which is annoying (although it is). What has really got my goat is the supine way ParalympicsGB has accepted it. More: continued here
BBC News Alistair Brownlee's Gold Post Box104.7 Minster FMTo celebrate the win, Royal Mail also produced special gold medal stamps yesterday, which are on sale in more than 500 Post Offices today, including the Post Office on Church Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, neighbouring his home town of Horsforth.Royal Mail's Olympic race to produce medallist stampsBBC…
STLtoday.com (blog) Britain's Royal Mail in hot water over gold medal Paralympic discriminationSTLtoday.com (blog)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 …and…
Daily Mail Postbox painted gold in honour of Jessica Ennis's Olympic heptathlon triumph …Daily MailThe post box, in Barker's Pool, Sheffield, was painted gold on Sunday to honour Jessica Ennis's gold medal in the heptathlon. Royal Mail said it did not know what the graffiti said as an engineer repaired the damage very quickly as…
Instead 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 … More: continued here
BBC News 'Wrong' postbox painted gold in honour of Olympian Peter CharlesBBC NewsRoyal Mail has painted the "wrong" postbox gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles. The postbox in Alton was painted after Charles won a gold medal in the Olympic equestrian event along with Scott Brash, Nick Skelton and Ben Maher.Postboxes go gold…
Royal Mail attracted criticism for not honouring Paralympic athletes in the same way as Olympians. More: continued here
BBC News Andy Murray's Olympic gold postbox to be redone after paint picked offBBC NewsThe box was painted to commemorate the Olympic tennis champion's singles win over Roger Federer on Sunday. But the Royal Mail said on Wednesday that "substantial amounts of the gold paint are no longer there". It is believed that visitors to…
Royal Mail paints the "wrong" postbox gold in honour of Hampshire Olympian Peter Charles. More: continued here