"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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True. It's only a recent thing, though - I'm fairly sure that 1st and
2nd class stamps used to have the price printed on them, so if you had
a load and the price went up you had to go to the Post Office and buy
a load of 1 or 2p stamps to be able to use them.


Yes, stamps inscribed 1st and 2nd were introduced in 1990. So, it depends on
your definition of "recent" I guess.

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Richard