Notice Board

General Data Protection Regulations 2018

Please see the Group’s notice and privacy statement here

Current Royal Mail charges on underpaid mail - October 2023 update

The scale of basic fees charged by Royal Mail has been increased w.e.f. 30 October 2023 as set out below, taken from their website https://www.royalmail.com/receiving-mail/pay-a-fee

    Letters/Large Letter
  • No postage paid/counterfeit stamp: £5.00
  • Insufficient postage paid - £1.50
  • Use of non-barcoded stamp - £2.50
    • Small Parcel
  • No postage paid/counterfeit stamp: £7.00
  • Insufficient postage paid - £3.50
  • Use of non-barcoded stamp - £3.50
    • Medium Parcel
  • £1.50 plus incremental postage rounded to the nearest 10 pence
  • £10.00 fee applied to any Medium Parcel exceeding Length 61cm Width 46cm Depth 46cm and or Weight 20kg (please note, the measurements will include any packaging).

The process for collection and release of underpaid mail is that RM send the addressee an official card, see front view and see verso view, advising of the fee to be paid and how to pay. There are three options: (a) payment online; (b) by affixing stamps to the card and posting it back to the delivery office; or (c) payment in person at the delivery office. For postage due postal historians, option (a) is the obvious one to take as it allows retention of the ‘grey card’ for philatelic posterity. Given this state-of-the-art system for handling postage due fees, the process is a neat combination of ancient and modern.

Underpaid International Mail

Ken Snelson’s major display on GB underpaid airmail up to WWII” is now available to view on this website – see ‘Displays’. This exhibit has been shown twice at National level shows in Canada. In March it was shown at Orapex in Ottawa and won a gold award. In October an augmented version was shown at CANPEX in London, Ontario and won a large gold. The fact that the display has won this awards speaks for itself – it is superb. Many congratulations, Ken.

ZOOM MEETINGS

The Group now holds zoom meetings approx every two months throughout the boreal Winter months. For 2022/23 these are the dates: Tuesday 18th October & Monday 19th December 2022; Monday 20th February 2023 and a later date to be confirmed.

All meetings will open at 18:45 ready for displays to start at 19:00.

Apologies to those members in parts of the world that make it impossible to join at this time of day but the meetings are now being recorded and details for viewing afterwards will be circulated.