Again, I don’t often report breaking news but this is quite something. if you saw my earlier post about the Royal Mail and its decision to produce individual stamps for Olympian gold medallists but group-only ones for Paralympians, you’ll be as delighted as I am to hear they’ve changed their minds. Paralympians now will have their own individual stamps to commemorate what will be the most extraordinary achievements over the next few weeks. Well done everyone who posted everywhere, joined the conversation, tweeted up a storm, and critically, sat down and made this decision. Here’s Royal Mail’s statement.
[...] then yesterday came extraordinary news – Royal Mail had changed its mind! The Paralympic gold medallists would be honoured with individual stamps in the same way as the Olympians have been, and [...]