Hi.. I have to say all the following is copied and with full acknowledgement to Ian Billings at http://www.norphil.co.uk/2008/02c-greetings_booklet.htm..  apart from the fact he has a great web site is a great guy I just hope he is ok with me doing this as did not ask his permission first...    ok so am strectched for time and wanted to show you this as I think it is an interesting booklet...and if my UK fan club is reading, please get me a copy before we have lunch on 19th :-)   Ian.. hope you are ok with me plugging your site... Apology if not  

Greetings retail stamp booklet - 28 February 2008

As part of the promotion of Smilers stamps and to increase the use of pictorial stamps, Royal Mail will issue a booklet containing the 6 most popular greetings stamps previously issued in two separate booklets in  2005 and 2006.

The booklets will carry an advert for the smiler service and will be distributed through all Post Offices and the retail network.

Royal Mail do not regard this as a new issue, so there will not be an official first day cover or First Day of Issue postmarks. But the stamps are very different. The basic and most obvious difference is that the earlier stamps had conventional perforations all round, but the latest booklet has stamps with an elliptical elongated perforation on the long side, similar to the Machin definitives.

In some ways it is unfortunate that the perforations are different, because there is still scope in these stamps for philatelic study. Note also that the edge-strip is inverted compared to the previous booklets.

Best wishes...Michael,  from another snowing day in Seoul