Royal Mail has announced that they are changing all of their stamps, meaning that ones already printed will soon become worthless. The post distributor has said it is adding adding barcodes to all its regular stamps, meaning after a certain date those without these barcodes will not be valid.
However, if you manage to swap your stamps in before the deadline - January 31 - you won't be missing out. Royal Mail is telling people to otherwise use up their old stamps before this deadline or swap them for free for the new barcoded ones.
The stamps that are changing are the stamps (pictured below) that will be very familiar to you. They feature the profile of Her Late Majesty The Queen on a plain coloured background. The stamps that will come into force with Prince Charles III portrait have yet to be released.
