Possibly Rare Post And Gos You May Never Of Heard Of!!

Has anyone even heard of these or even seen one before?
Obviously no Northolt references needed.Feel free to comment.
https://www.stampcommunity.org/regi...4824cn2sq6u6

Hi norrak, and welcome to this forum! Have you tried http://adminware.ca/machin.htm ? I believe these are from a automated postage machine sort of like our Charlie Brown ATM stickers. There are several different ones of these. Available on this website is THE Machin catalog! Hope this helps?
Just googled "Post & Go stamps" and you can find others like this on the Royal Mail website!

Peter

Thank you Petert4522 for your welcome and of course reply,
I have obviously done a little research in the last year to no avail.
They are automated machine Machins.
All I can comment on them is, that if I posted Wheatstone attached to an envelope to any area represented by stamp value it would get to it's destination without postage due charge, these are legal, modern Royal mail stamps and were sold by them.
Could we conclude the same could be said about The British Guiana 1c Magenta in it's condition?
Apologies for comparison lol
Though modern these are very rare to non existant according to all research done by myself online. The machine M001 had no reference till the beginning of this month. These are from my private collection and not for sale at any price, it was a lucky once in a lifetime find, which I truly believe is the reason why we collect, without the budget of the Stanley Gibbons brigade the small collector, with eyes open, can still find pearls for a few pounds. Or in your honor Dollars.
Thanks again Sir.

A short time later Wheatstone has been removed from Machin.

just out of curiosity, based on your research, how many of these type would you say exist?

another question while we're here. I did some brief looking online at these P&G labels, and it seems that for the majority of offerings, they are either in strips (as you display) or used singles. is there no market for mint singles? hypothetically, if you were to sell yours, would it not be possibly more profitable to sell 4 individual labels vs a single strip of 4?
and one more question while I have your attention. your receipt shows 1 collectors strip. you show 2 different strips. what is considered the collectors strip? and how many different values are there? your right hand strip shows 4 different values.

Thank you Kuhli for your question,
I have 1 collectors strip and a strip of 1st class displaying Wheatstone from Royal Mails area 51 machine.
Bought them just out of interest from the Wheatstone site.
Then went home and curiosity made me go on the machine locator and the machine was not included. Went back to buy some more and found Wheatstone had been ommited from label, hence 2nd picture on this thread.
On the label themselves actuations even on my later strips were displayed as in the 80s. So there has to be others, bearing in mind these were bought last March. This is in stark contrast to all known post and go machine dispensed stamps, which are in the 1000s. I am certainly interested into how many Wheatstone emblazoned stamps there are as I have no clue. However this machine was not included in any info provided by Royal Mail itself prior to the Northolt move, which just happens to be a secure site with no public access hence the area 51 tag.
The collectors Strip includes Europe and worldwide postal which are fewer in number. If you buy a 46 odd pound set from an automated machine you get 6 of each value just like the 6 first class.
These are not for sale and doubt worth anything anyway, from my point of view they are scarce and feel lucky to have stumbled upon them in the tidal wave of post and gos.
Thanks again for your interest Kuhli
Sorry the collectors strip is to right of picture

I believe Wheatstone House is/was one part of a much larger Royal Mail complex (? Dorcan) and was a testing place for machines etc. This particular machine would have been available to staff and visitors to buy the strips of P&G. The "Wheatstone House" printing on the strips would make them somewhat rarer than normal, I suspect, as they would have been available to reasonably few buyers.

See the following http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2016/02/p...ad-life.html