 Editor in Chief Bill   | 29 Dec 2018 11:38 a.m. PST |
Britain's Royal Mail apologized on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops going ashore thousands of miles away weeks earlier… link |
DisasterWargamer  | 29 Dec 2018 11:44 a.m. PST |
link The still image of the stamp showing landings in Dutch New Guinea versus Normandy |
| dBerczerk | 29 Dec 2018 12:12 p.m. PST |
Philatelists will be ecstatic. |
| Dave Jackson | 29 Dec 2018 1:34 p.m. PST |
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| Cyrus the Great | 29 Dec 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
Philatelists will be ecstatic. No, they won't. Shoddy work all round Actually not, it was caught before going to print. |
| dBerczerk | 29 Dec 2018 3:47 p.m. PST |
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 Herkybird | 29 Dec 2018 5:38 p.m. PST |
Obviously Royal Mail's Google Image-fu is weak! I applaud them for admitting the gaffe, rather funny really! |
| Twilight Samurai | 29 Dec 2018 7:28 p.m. PST |
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| Dn Jackson | 30 Dec 2018 12:35 a.m. PST |
To be fair the stamp just says 'D-Day Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore' It doesn't say WHICH D-Day it is a picture of. :-) |
| Herkybird | 30 Dec 2018 3:00 a.m. PST |
Good point! It is often overlooked that 'D' day was used for any landing! |
| Patrick R | 30 Dec 2018 4:07 a.m. PST |
Good to see they fixed it … |
| Starfury Rider | 30 Dec 2018 8:26 a.m. PST |
I'd be interested to know how the picture was chosen in the first place, and whether it came with a credit. I'd like to think if I'd been handed that picture cold and asked if it was suitable for British troops landing on D-Day, I'd have noticed the helmet outline was of the M1 and not battle bowlers and said no straight off. If anyone, unprepared and not already familiar with the image, could have deduced from the sky and sea that it was from the Pacific and not Western Europe, well done. Ideally they could have reached out to some D-Day authors for suggestions of a suitable photo, as they've done before. I still have the 50th anniversary set for 1944-1994 and they are definitely not images from the PTO. Given the number of special issues they've made over the years for British forces in general and D-Day in particular it's a shame they're getting such a kicking over an error that didn't even make it into print. Gary |
| Asteroid X | 30 Dec 2018 11:10 p.m. PST |
"I'd be interested to know how the picture was chosen in the first place …". In today's day and age, I would not be surprised if they merely used their favourite search engine (or Wikipedia …). |
| uglyfatbloke | 22 Feb 2019 6:40 a.m. PST |
Brits moan about Royal Mail all the time, but the price and reliability are fantastic compared to anywhere else I've lived. |
| deephorse | 22 Feb 2019 9:34 a.m. PST |
In my experience they don't moan about Royal Mail at all. What they do moan about is My Hermes and others like it, that leave parcels in bins, on doorsteps etc., if, indeed, they even deliver them at all. |
