Having covered the Guernsey POST AND GO Errors in the March 2024 edition, (Vol.43 No.1) the spotlight now turns onto those POST AND GO errors issued by the Jersey Post office.
The first Jersey POST AND GO, showing the Jersey Flag was issued for the Spring Stampex show held in Islington London, which opened on the 19 February 2014. Normally, (Figure 1) the ‘K’ in UK is a capital but quite a few sets are known with the ‘k’ in lowercase, (Figure 1a). This error is known from the Philatelic Bureau machine only (B001).
The second error to appear is an example from a strip of 6, (Figure 2) issued from the philatelic bureau machine B001. Dispensed on the 6 June 2014 in Jersey, the label shows within the data string B6GB14 which is incorrect.
During 2014, both POST AND GO machines, (J001 & B001) were able to print the Jersey Flag and UK Union Flag labels.
The receipt, (Figure 2a) clearly shows the Royal Mail Logo. The last three digits from this strip of six, (not shown) are 138, suggesting that at least 23 strips of 6 were issued with the wrong data string, which should have been B6JE14.
Subsequently J001 was renumbered JE01 from August 2014. B001 was changed to B002 starting with the September Autumn Stampex issue of 2014, which commemorated the First World War Centenary.
After a visit to the Perth Show in Scotland for the Scottish 85th Congress in April 2014, Jersey POST AND GO machine (JE01) attended the International Stamp Exhibition at PhilaKorea, Seoul, in August 2014.
Illustrated opposite, (Figure 3) are the bottom two labels from a strip of six issued via B001 in Jersey. The bottom label is the only one of the six to show the ‘k’ of Philakorea in lowercase.
On the 4 September 2014, a third POST AND GO kiosk (JE02) was installed in the Broad Street post office in St. Helier. Labels from this machine have nearly always carried the ‘Broad Street’ overprint.
For the Spring Stampex Show, which opened on the 18 February 2015 in London, a new design for Protected Species by Andrew Beckett was issued from Kiosk JE01 at Stampex. This set was also available from the Broad Street (JE02) and Bureau (B002) machines.
Both earlier kiosks (JE01 & B002) plus the ‘Broad Street’ kiosk, (JE02) were also set up to issue UK labels with the Union Flag, (Figure 4). However, it also dispensed the protected species with Jersey postal rates, (Figure 4a). A new reel of protected species labels was installed incorrectly, resulting in the labels receiving the UK rates, (Figure 4b) (Figures 4, 4a, and 4b are illustrated on page 27). This was soon rectified and only a few sets are known.
For the 2015 Autumn Stampex show (16 to 19 September) the Broad Street Machine was again stocked with the protected species label.
A few strips are known with missing letters from the local rates, as shown in Figure 5 on page 26. The remaining values, (like these two examples) exist with the last three numbers omitted.
On the 30 October 2015 the Jersey Broad Street post office kiosk, (JE02) was the only one to issue a set with Jersey Flags, (Figure 6) overprinted ‘RAFA Jersey 90’ (Royal Air Force Associations 90th Anniversary in Jersey). It was available until the 30 November.
However, the overprint was also applied for approximately 100 minutes running time to the set of six from the protected species set in error, (Figure 6a above). Only a single from each strip is shown for clarity and space saving.
Although strictly not an error, two labels from the protected species set issued via JE02 on the 14 February 2018, showed three changes to the rate overprint, compared to the same pair shown earlier, (Figure 4a).
Europe was now 100g up from 20g, (Figure 7). The rate for the Rest of the World, (formely International Letter) was also increased to 100g.
Jersey Post, visited the Southern England stamp show at Farnborough which opened on the 10 March 2017. This was a two-day event.
Kiosk (JE01) was set up to issue labels with the Jersey Crest, (Figure 8) plus Jersey Sea Shell set, (Figure 8a) in the established collectors strips of six. Surprisingly the Sea Shell set did not receive the Southern England Stamp Show 2017 overprint.
Jersey Crest strips from the show are known with blank labels and two examples illustrated below (Figures 8b & 8c).
The JE02 kiosk in Broad Street was the only one selected to celebrate the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan. (Figure 9). The Broad Street overprint was replaced with a two line overprint on the Jersey Crest issue, (in use for only 1 day), for the 19 May 2018.
On the morning of the 19 May, for about 10 minutes, the protected species received the overprint in error, (Figure 9a). This was quickly corrected with the change to the Jersey Crest issue, which was chosen to show a complete and unimpeded overprint. The session numbers 3474 to 3483 are recorded with the error. The printed receipt from the above session numbers (not shown) state that it is a Jersey Crests Collectors strip.
Completing the pair of errors from the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan, is another blank Jersey Crest label. The top pair, (Figure. 9b) is from a strip seven (the remainder are normal).
Single blank Jersey Crest labels can come from one of the many sets issued. Therefore, collectors should always try and collect this type of error with a companion label, in order to prove the source (Figure 9b).
A new kiosk (JE03) was used at the 2019 Spring Stampex, (13 to 16 February). This machine issued collectors’ strips of six with the knots. A single with the local letter rate is shown below, (Figure 10).
Due to missing ink on some characters a few strips from the show, have been found with the word ‘Locai’ instead of ‘Local’, (Figure 10a).
Issued in error at the show is another blank label, (Figure 10b). Like the Royal Wedding pair shown above, (Figure 9b) these two labels are digitally cropped from the top of a strip of seven.
The Broad Street (JE02) plus Jersey PHQ (JE03) kiosks were both in use to celebrate “10 years of Jersey POST AND GO”, the Jersey Flag design appearing with the appropriate overprint (Figure 11).
However, a few sessions on 29 February from the JE02 kiosk in Broad Street were issued with the 10 Yrs of P&G overprint appearing in error on the Jersey Farm Animals, (Figure 11a).
A few sets are known with ‘scrambled printing’ (Figure 12), the computer sending corrupted data to the printing mechanism. This example is from the 2017 Southern England Stamp Show.
Earlier in this article, a Jersey protected species label was recorded with UK rates, as shown at Figure 4b.
During September 2015 collectors strips of six with the UK Flag were overprinted with Jersey rates.
Figure 13 shows two of the Jersey rate labels, digitally cropped from the top of the UK strip of six.
If anyone can enhance or provide additional information on POST AND GO errors from either Channel Island post office please contact the editor.
