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Speedy Letter Service Uncut Sheet of Stamps, ca.1971, Postal Worker Strike

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:20.00 USD Estimated At:40.00 - 80.00 USD
Speedy Letter Service Uncut Sheet of Stamps, ca.1971, Postal Worker Strike
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This item SOLD at 2022 Mar 31 @ 12:45UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Great Britain.... Uncut sheet of 50, 2 Shilling, pre paid stamps. These stamps were issued for the 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike. The strike was Britain's first national postal strike and began after postal workers demanded a pay rise of 15Ð20% then walked out after Post Office managers made a lower offer. The strike began on 20 January and lasted for seven weeks, finally ending with an agreement on Thursday 4 March. After voting over the weekend, the strikers returned to work on Monday 8 March 1971. A wide range of officially licensed and unlicensed private posts operated during the strike to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of official postal services. Some were genuine commercial services that provided local, national and international deliveries, but many were set up by stamp collectors and stamp dealers to provide philatelic material for collectors.