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stamp programme cut back Royal Mail has promised future cuts in the amount of GB stamps released every year with Royal Mail stating that only 75 stamps will be issued in the financial year 2003-4 compared to the 2002-3 year. Gavin Macrae, Royal Mail’s Director of Stamps and Collectibles, explained: ‘The current proposal is that we will issue a reduction of four stamps, but there will be more reductions’. Macrae added: ‘I can’t claim at this stage that we have reduced the cost of collecting British stamps but I would like to see that, depending on attracting new collectors’. The message appears to be that if Royal Mail can sell stamps to a wider audience that there is the potential for collecting GB stamps to become more affordable in the future. Macrae stated: ‘It’s important that we keep stamps special. That’s a very challenging thing to do. What I want to do is sell more of the stamps we produce, not produce more stamps’. According to Royal Mail sources the Golden Jubilee year has attracted more customers to the Royal Mail Philatelic Bureau in Edinburgh, but it’s unclear as to if this upward trend will continue in future. Gavin Macrae told STAMP MAGAZINE: ‘It is my intention to reduce it further and further again, dependent on the success of issues’. Speaking generally about stamp issuing policy Macrae noted: ‘We have to be careful that stamps don’t become high brow, but I won’t be looking to do stamps that cash in on David Beckham and his wife. I’m hoping you’ll see that as a step in the right direction’. |
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