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    COLLECTORS’ CORNER

    Sep 10, 2021 7 minutes

    POST & GO

    The Covid effect

    As collectors of Post & Go stamps we have not escaped the effect of Covid-19 across the United Kingdom, writes Stuart Leigh. Back in March 2020, in line with government guidelines all the museums closed down, and hence all the kiosks in their gift shops were not available.

    At the beginning of September 2020 all the Naval Museums reopened within a few days of each other, with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Steam Museum of GWR opening on 17 September, just one day before this all the kiosks were re-programmed to read ‘World 100g Zones 1 & 3’, instead of the confusing ‘World 100g Zones 1 - 3’.

    Before long we were back in lockdown, with all the museums closed again. However, the Postal Museum engineered a special issue and I quote from the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion blog: ‘It seems rather surreal to me – stamps costing a lot of money produced by an inaccessible machine to commemorate a philatelic exhibition that has no physical reality.’ But then these have been strange times.

    The Post & Go kiosk (A001) is within the entrance to

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