New issues.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
16 May 2024 - 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Peppa Pig, a children’s television cartoon programme featuring an anthropomorphic pig - 8 stamps (2 strips each of 4 different stamps - 4 x 1st and 4 x £2 - cost of set - £13.40p, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (sold for £6.70) and 2 ‘Fan sheets’ each containing 4 identical stamps & each sold for £7.50p) Designed by Michael O’Shea and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Total cost of these items - £35.10p! Expensive philatelic drivel. Rating:- 0.
Even as an arachnophobe (not looking forward to 26 September's stamps), this is the 2024 issue which I have been most dreading - and it is every big as poor as I had dreaded.
ReplyDeleteNot that I am snobbish about popular culture, but this should have been a single stamp in a set of 8 or 10 (e.g. "children's TV"), not multiple stamps at each price point including some which will almost never be used (and are presumably not intended to be used as postage, merely as expensive collectibles).
No longer scraping the bottom of a barrel, this is now through the wood and well into the gound below.
Absolutely agree with everything said White Knight. Have recently concluded that I cannot continue to collect the utter rubbish that Royal Mail expect us to keep purchasing. Cost is also a factor, therefore from now fdc's only will be collected .... and now save a substantial amount of money which is being put to better use! Royal Mail ..., you have a lot to answer for.
ReplyDeleteI wanted Bagpuss!
ReplyDeleteGuernsey Post will be issuing a Bagpuss set “this summer”.
DeleteRoyal Mail, fired and missed with this one. At least with nostalgic rock acts you are catching the boomer audience, but Peppa Pig is a load of rot aimed at 3 year old children. Kids that young have very little money and zero interest in stamps. Plus they milked it to death as usual with fan sheets, prestige booklets etc. Could you imagine 100 or even 50 years ago Royal Mail issuing stamp issues showing skulls in a heavy metal band or badly drawn cartoon pigs. Then again at least there are no coins of it, Australia has sunk lower and issued Bluey (A talking cartoon Blue Heeler dog) coins - the usual bubblegum rubbish. Also apparently some Muslims complained that Peppa Pig was an affront to Islam as they had to lick the stamps, meaning they were licking swine (Not depictions of swine). So Royal Mail also lost some woke points too.
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