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‘STAMPS ON VANS’ – FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL STAMPS TO FEATURE ON ITS VANS IN TOWNS AND CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Royal Mail is, for the first time, to feature images of its Special Stamps on a number of its vehicles

The set of six Christmas Special Stamps will be the first to be publicised in this way from Monday 10 November

Around 1500 vans across the country will feature the images

The stamps will be displayed on vans in 26 towns and cities around the UK including Liverpool, Sheffield, London, Glasgow, Belfast, Cardiff, Plymouth and Leicester
Royal Mail today announced the launch of a campaign that will see, for the first time ever, images of its Special Stamps featured on its delivery vans,

Beginning with the set of six Christmas stamps, which are now on sale, images of the stamps will appear on around 1,500 Royal Mail vans across 26 towns and cities across the UK.

This will be a rolling programme that will incorporate all of the upcoming Special Stamp issues in 2015. There will be a special emphasis on places across the country that have a strong association with the image on the stamp. The images are printed on adhesive vinyls and applied to the vans.

Andrew Hammond, Royal Mail said: “This is the first in what will be an on-going campaign to feature our Special Stamp Programme across the country using our familiar red postal vans, The size and reach of our fleet should help create high levels of public awareness.”

The Christmas stamps will appear in 26 towns and cities:

London
Birmingham
Glasgow
Leeds
Edinburgh
Liverpool
Bristol
Sheffield
Bradford
Cardiff
Manchester
Leicester
Stoke-on-Trent
Hull
Coventry
Nottingham
Belfast
Plymouth
Sunderland
Brighton
Derby
Wolverhampton
Southampton
Aberdeen
Bangor
Inverness