The Royal Mail has issued (or will issue) stamps to celebrate the upcoming Darwin anniversary. There’s also a miniature sheet, depicting the Galapagos Islands, and a variety of the specialised fauna found there.
I think they are particularly attractive, and it’s good to see the profile of this most important of anniversaries maintained. For more information, visit Norvic Philatelics – there is a much more information on the design, background information, and how to buy first day covers etc (and I also linked to their images). I have to say, I never thought I’d blog about postage stamps, but there you go!
[Post edited to remove direct links to the images]
4th January 2009 at 4:32 pm
Dear Grumpy Bob
It was good to more publicity for Royal Mail’s new stamp issue on Darwin. However, there are two things wrong with this.
Firstly the images are copyright Royal Mail and this should be acknowledged by anybody who has obtained permission to use them.
Secondly we prefer that people do not hotlink to images hosted on our server. The correct netiquette is to host the images on your own server or other free space – and there is plenty of free space on photobucket, flickr, picassa etc – and then link to there. As it is you are linking to our server and anybody who looks at your blog accesses the pictures that we host.
Please correct this
Many thanks
Ian
5th January 2009 at 8:09 am
Ian,
Apologies. I have removed the direct link to your images – but I left a link to your web pages. Let me know if you want that link removed.
They are some of the most attractive stamps I’ve seen in a long time.
Robert