First Gold Medal Win Celebrated With Next Day Olympic Gold Medal Stamp

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First Gold Medal Win Celebrated With Next Day

Olympic Gold Medal Stamp

PR Newswire

LONDON, August 2, 2012

LONDON

,

August 2, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Royal Mail will have available by lunchtime tomorrow a Gold Medal stamp to

celebrate Helen Glover and Heather Stanning's gold medal win in the Women's

Pair rowing final.

The gold medal win makes Helen and Heather the first all-female sports team to

appear on a Royal Mail stamp

This is Team GB's first Gold Medal moment at

London

2012, and the first stamp

Royal Mail has produced within 24 hours.

The stamp will be on sale in over 500 Post Office branches, including in Helen's

home town of

Penzance

and

Reading

,

Berkshire

where the pair live.

A fleet of 90 Royal Mail vehicles will deliver the stamps across the UK to over 500

Post Offices to be on sale by lunchtime tomorrow.

Royal Mail will also paint a much-loved red post box gold in each of their

hometowns of Lossiemouth, Moray and

Penzance

,

Cornwall

to celebrate their

gold medal win

To celebrate Team GB's first gold medal moment at

London

2012, Royal Mail

will produce a stamp in 24 hours to honour Helen and Heather's gold medal

triumph in the Women's Pair Rowing.

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The gold medal win makes Helen and Heather the first members of Team GB to

appear on Royal Mail's Gold Medal stamps and the first all-women sports team

ever to appear on a Royal Mail stamp. They are also the first ever British gold

medallists in women's Olympic rowing.

Moya Greene, Royal Mail Chief Executive, said: "We're delighted to be issuing

these very special Gold Medal stamps to recognise our Olympic champion UK

athletes.

"This is a first for Royal Mail and we are proud to play our part in celebrating

the many victories this summer.

"We will be printing millions of stamps to enable customers to celebrate these

sporting successes and I'm sure they will be treasured as unique souvenirs of

Team GB's victories for years to come."

Royal Mail will also paint one of its much-loved red post boxes gold in the pair's

hometowns of Lossiemouth and

Penzance

to celebrate their win.

The stamps will be on sale by lunchtime tomorrow in over 500 Post Offices

across the UK. Customers can also purchase the stamps from tomorrow at

http://www.royalmail.com/goldmedalstamps

Royal Mail Group Press Office

Tel: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

http://www.royalmailgroup.com

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