XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

Last year at Stampex I picked up this very unusual piece of military history. I meant to write about it months ago but didn't get round to it, so I apologise. But I thought it is better late than never, and this is such a great piece. I bought this from Stephen Taylor, who is a dealer speciaising in US postal history. He had a lot of military themed items, especially from World War II, which I was interested in. I bought a few things from him, but I found this very interesti

A few days ago, we wrote to Royal Mail to suggest some ideas for future commemorative stamps. You can read our suggestions here. Royal Mail has sent a response very quickly, and here is what they have to say (in a slightly abridged form): "Thank you very much for taking the tiume to compile and share such a thoughtful and wide-ranging set of suggestions for the Special Stamp Programme. We know a great deal of research and consideration has gone into these proposals, and we

To mark World Post Day (9th October), South Africa has issued a set of two stamps called "Love the Postbox". What is not to love about postboxes? I have never been to South Africa but they clearly have red postboxes too. And, if you look at the First Day Cover, you will see that they have a mixture of traditional as well as modern postboxes just like in the UK. Some of these are from the time when parts of South Africa were colonies of the British Empire, so perhaps it is not