Anyone still with an old-style stamp has only until tomorrow to use it, says Royal Mail. The traditional stamps will no longer be accepted after July 31 as the postal service completes the ...

Royal Mail is urging people to use up stamps that do not have a barcode by 31 January, when they will no longer be valid for postage ... Out' form and send the old stamps to a Royal Mail freepost ...

However, commemorative and non-barcoded Christmas stamps will still be valid. People can swap their old stamps for barcoded ... on continue to be valid for postage, they should not be submitted ...

The original postage stamp introduced in 1840, the Penny Black, cost just one old penny, which is less than half of 1p.