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Guernsey will celebrate the 2023 Guernsey Island Gameswith an overprint on Post & Go Flag stamps

Guernsey Post’s philatelic bureau is delighted to announce that it will release a Post & Go overprint to celebrate and commemorate the NatWest International Island Games XIX, to be held in Guernsey from 8-14 July.

The Post & Go Guernsey flag stamp designs will vend on Guernsey’s Post & Go GG02 kiosk and the Market Street GG05 kiosk from Fri 7th July – Fri 14th July and will bear the following overprint: –

Guernsey Island
Games – July 2023

Guernsey Post’s head of philatelic, Bridget Yabsley said: – ‘The Games first began in 1985 when the Isle of Man brought together athletes from 15 small islands around the world for a sporting festival called the ‘Inter-Island Games’. It has since grown to include 24 member islands.’

‘The Games are a significant event in Guernsey’s sporting calendar and the third time it has hosted the Games. We will welcome around 2,800 athletes, coaches and officials and locals will have the opportunity to support and watch athletes compete in 14 different sports.’

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Guernsey Post has also released a set of 7 stamps commemorating the Island Games, these are available to purchase via the website www.guernseystamps.com

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Guernsey Post & Go With Festive Message

Guernsey Stamps announces that two designs of its Post & Go stamps will send out a seasonal message during December.

From 1-23 December 2022, the GG02 and GG03 series kiosks, located at the main Post Office at Envoy House, La Vrangue, St Peter Port and the Guernsey Information Centre, North Plantation, St Peter Port will vend the Bailiwick Cuisine Post & Go stamps, whilst the GG05 series unit, based at the Market Post Office will vend stamps bearing the Bailiwick Lighthouse design. All kiosks will display the overprint message Bon Noël 2022.

Priced at £5.75 each of the Post & Go stamp strips will comprise the following values: –
Gsy letter up to 100g
UK letter up to 100g
Gsy large letter up to 100g
EUR letter up to 20g
ROW letter up to 20g
UK large letter up to 100g

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Guernsey will celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with an overprint on Post & Go Flag stamps

Guernsey Post’s philatelic bureau is delighted to announce that it will release a limited-edition Post & Go product in celebration of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service, Her Majesty having acceded to the throne on 6th February 1952.

The Post & Go Guernsey flag stamp designs will vend on Guernsey’s Post & Go GG02 kiosk from Fri 3rd June 2022 – Fri 1st July 2022 and will bear the following overprint: –

The Queen’s
Platinum Jubilee

Guernsey Post’s head of philatelic, Bridget Yabsley said: – “In addition to our commemorative Platinum Jubilee stamps we are delighted to join the celebrations in June with a Post and Go Jubilee overprint on our Guernsey Flag design. Since Royal Mail is providing an overprint on their Machin reel, collectors have an opportunity to purchase similar Jubilee overprints from a different region.”

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Guernsey to vend Post & Go stamps at Guernsey’s Tourist Information Centre

Guernsey Stamps is delighted to announce that its Post & Go desktop unit (DKU) GG03 will make a welcome return to Guernsey Information Centre in St Peter Port from 21 April, where it will vend stamps with special overprints for cruise ship tourists and collectors.

The DKU unit will vend the bureau’s latest pictorial Post & Go stamps showcasing local ‘Guernsey Cuisine’, with a unique location identifier “Guernsey Information Centre”. The overprint will be as follows:
G.I.C. 2022
Bianvnu à Guernesi

Working in partnership with Visit Guernsey, an overprint message on the stamps will welcome cruise ship passengers to Guernsey’s shores, which will be updated each time a ship arrives into port. The first cruise overprint will vend on 23 April to mark the arrival of the ‘Spirit of Adventure’.

Guernsey Post’s head of philatelic, Bridget Yabsley said: – “We are delighted that our DKU machine will take up residence once again at Guernsey’s Tourist Information Centre after the absence of tourists over the past two years. The special cruise ship stamps were very popular with visiting tourists and a lovely keepsake of their visit to our beautiful island. We are confident that our latest pictorial Post & Go issue ‘Guernsey Cuisine’ will also be a big hit with our collectors.”