We’re adding barcodes to all our regular ‘everyday’ stamps. These are the stamps that should be very familiar with you. They feature the profile of Her Majesty the Queen on a plain coloured background. The barcodes will enable exciting new services by connecting physical stamps to the digital world through the Royal Mail app which you can download here.
We’re giving you plenty of notice about this change and any non-barcoded stamps you have will still be valid until 31 July 2023. If you won’t be able to use all of your stamps by that date you can swap them out for new barcoded ones.
Special Stamps with pictures on and Christmas Stamps without a bar code will continue to be valid and don’t need to be swapped out.
For more information and how to ‘swap them out’ visit www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps