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The Royal Mail has issued an urgent warning to all service users that if old stamps are used from tomorrow (Monday, July 31) then it’ll cost you £1.10. This is because the Royal Mail has added barcodes to its regular stamps, making its old ones out of date.
The deadline comes after a six-month transition period was announced on January 31 this year. The new stamps will look the same as the current ones but with a barcode.
Special Christmas stamps without barcodes will still be valid. They will continue to have the late Queen Elizabeth II on them.
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To exchange old stamps for their newer counterparts, you use the Royal Mail’s Swap Out scheme, There is no deadline for swapping.
Royal Mail said: “A leaflet with a form [for the Swap Out scheme] was delivered to every household recently, but customers can also print out a form from our website; call our Customer Experience team to order one; or pick one up at a local Royal Mail delivery office or Post Office.”
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If you receive post with an old stamp on the front, you will be given a ‘Fee to Pay’ card where you have to pay to collect your item.
The managing director of Stamps and Collectibles at Royal Mail, Matthew Parkes, says the stamp transition is part of the body’s modernisation process, which allows ‘added security features’ which ‘pave the way for innovative services for customers in the future’.
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Long-term the service wants people to scan the barcode using the app. This would allow people to send each other greeting videos to mark special occasions, for example.
The Royal Mail’s website reads: “The barcodes will enable exciting new services by connecting physical stamps to the digital world through the Royal Mail app.”
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