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Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:00 pm
by asmodeus
I need help! Was is it always permitted to use cut outs from postal stationeries?

Thank you very much for your help!

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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:00 pm
by bobphillifent
The siuation regarding "cutouts" is somewhat complex! Sometimes the Post Office allowed this, then they didn't, then they changed their minds!
Briefly the situation is as follows:
Between July 1845-30th.Sept,1870, cutouts were "legal"
From 31st,Oct,1870-31st.Dec,1904 cutouts were "illegal"
From 1st.Jan.,1905 cutouts were made "legal" again.

Hope this answers your question.

Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:00 pm
by asmodeus
Thank you very much for your help!

Re: Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:48 pm
by jimusedcontrols
Can anyone confirm whether cut-outs from postal stationery have since been forbidden again? A friend just asked me as he recalled there being some decision made in the 70's. That would explain why I have 1967 cut-outs gone through the mail ok but 2 from the 90's charged postage due as contrary to regulations!

Thanks
James

Re: Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:31 pm
by mike.mood@talktalk.net
I thought that cutouts were only banned again very recently, within about the last two years. Certainly I have used them since the 1990s

Re: Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:46 am
by Brunswickstar
Hiya
I know very little about cutouts? can anyone point me in the direction of further reading? I have several from 1870-1946.
thanks. Mark

Re: Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:12 pm
by jimusedcontrols
see the article by Michael Lockton in GBJ vol. 50 no. 5 here on the website. If you are looking for postal stationery more generally, a good start is "Collect British Postal Stationery" by Huggins and Baker, published by the GBPS. Almost certainly available to borrow from the library as I think now out of print.

Re: Cut-outs from postal stationery

Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:26 pm
by Brunswickstar
Cheers buddy