UK Postal Strike 1971

Hi guyana1230 ,

It's nice to see your strike covers from Dorset.

I have just one volume (out of many) of Clive Smith's series of British Private Posts handbooks.

This covers the 1971 postal strike posts beginning with the letters "D" to "EM" and it spends 3½ pages on the Dorset Village Post. 

One set of possibly interesting facts: the intended stamp values were identified by the colour of the paper (despite them all saying "20p"): 

- lemon-yellow - 10p - for local delivery (I guess this meant within Dorchester)

- flesh - 12½p - to Weymouth

- emerald-green - 18p - to the Bournemouth area (through a separate linked service)

- bright scarlet (or deep rose red) - 20p - to the Dorset villages (Cerne Abbas, Puddletown etc.)

- new blue - 50p - to London and the home counties (again through a separate linked service)

The stamps were in use for only about seven days.

It's a lovely part of the country. 

Full imperf sheet from Exeter, 20 January 1971;

Just got these two which clearly state Norwich, 1971 Postal Strike, Decimal Day February 15th. But I cannot find them in my Phillips Modern Postal Strike Mail catalogue;

Stroma strike mail;

My latest batch; Strike Post (Astral Creations), 25th January 1971. Missing the 2 x 2/- and 2 x 5/- stamps. Coats of Arms/Star Signs.

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