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Horizon label

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Reception
Timeline
Post Office training
References
External links

A Horizon label is an adhesive postage label that is a type of variable value stamp. The labels were introduced in the United Kingdom in 2002^[1] as part of the computerisation of the counter services of the post office network of Royal Mail using the Horizon System.^[2]

Reception

The labels received a frosty reception from philatelists initially as they were seen as replacing postage stamps, but as they have become more complex and more stamp-like, collectors have warmed to them and they have now become a popular collecting specialism in the U.K. and an established part of modern British postal history.^[1]

Timeline

The first labels were large plain labels composed purely of text but later labels are of a gold colour with a Machin head and a repeating pattern of the words ROYALMAIL in order to prevent forgery.

The principal events in the development of the labels were:^[3]

14 February 2002 - First labels used in about 1000 post offices. Plain white with straight edges.
30 April 2002 - Security slits added to prevent reuse.
August & September 2002 - Labels rolled out nationally.
April 2009 - Labels with simulated perforations appear.
8 June 2009 - First gold labels appear featuring the Machin head for Special Delivery only from the Camden High Street P.O., London. Gold labels gradually introduced nationally.
20 April 2010 - First labels with dual English-Welsh language inscriptions available from Welsh post offices.
23 August 2010 - Straight-edged labels reintroduced first at Old Street then nationally.
29 September 2011 - Value Added Tax codes added.
May 2015 - "Pre-cancelled" labels trialled at the Europhilex exhibition with corner "Single Use Only" wording. Colour changed back to white. Subsequently used nationally.
September 2015 - Barcode added to the design.

Post Office training

The training of postal workers includes the use of voided horizon labels,^[4] noted as early as 2003.^[5]

References

1. ^¹"GB Postal Stationery, Postal Labels and Postmarks: Horizon Labels" by John Holman in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, February 2008, p. 43.
2. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20131115192217/http://www.britishpostmarksociety.org.uk/SG9yaXpvbl9MYWJlbHM%3D.aspx Horizon Labels] British Postmark Society, 27 June 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2013. Archived at Internet Archive.
3. ^"Horizon labels pass under philatelic radar", Michael L. Goodman, Stamp Lover, Vol. 108, August 2016, pp. 114-115.
4. ^"Another view" by Douglas Myall in British Philatelic Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 5, January 2014, pp. 149-151.
5. ^"Horizon Training Labels" in Dummy Stamps, Issue 25, Quarter 2, 2012, p.12. [https://www.webcitation.org/6On9mQqjb?url=http://www.stampprinters.info/DS25.pdf Archived here.]

External links

Royal Mail Horizon Postage Labels - Summary 2007 [https://www.webcitation.org/6L9fH2sfK?url=http://www.norphil.co.uk/articles/horizon/labels.htm Archived here.]
Horizon Postage Labels~Full List
Delta Stamps Fact File No. 10 2009 [https://www.webcitation.org/6L9fUHvGk?url=http://deltastamps.com/Fact10.htm Archived here.]

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