Many of you may have missed the issue of a new set of GB definitives. They are like a longer format version of the 1st class Machin and they are currently ONLY available in two POs in the whole UK - and NOT available from the Philatelic Bureau or philatelic counters. Luckily for me one of the locations of these stamps is in Bristol so yesterday I went down to get some. Unfortunately I wasn't totally successful - the machine I used was only issuing 4 of the 5 values, the other machine was out of order. An hour later both were! So although I have five 'sets' of 4 values, they'll be little use to me until they fix the post & go machine(s).
Who knows what I'll do with 'em. I'm not keen on listing them on eBay even though they are selling at double face or more. I'll probably use them on kiloware parcels, giving them genuine postal (and possibly very rare) use. With the scarcity of machines and their seeming ease of breaking down, this may become a very scarce issue indeed ...
