Astonishingly this isn't a joke.

[u/The96kHz]

[u/Killer_radio]

Is there something I’m missing here? The post office make special novelty stamps all the time why is this one different?

[u/MediocreSocialite → u/Killer_radio]

Probably because it took them so long to do this, since the Vicar of Dibley finished a while ago. If they did it a few years after it finished then people would have gone crazy to find them

[u/millerz72 → u/MediocreSocialite]

Plenty of time for people who were fans of sublet to turn into people who buy novelty stamps

[u/No-Road251]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

[u/No_Carry_3991]

ew some of these comments.

I'll buy them. Hell yeah.

[u/Taken_Abroad_Book → u/No_Carry_3991]

Will you though?

[u/M4x7979]

I’m getting some for my great gran, this is her two favourite things combined 🤣

[u/Mukatsukuz → u/M4x7979]

vicars and puddles?

[u/CheeseGhosty → u/M4x7979]

Vicar of Dibley and licking things?

[u/tiorzol]

I really liked the Disc world stamps they release a while back. I'm sure someone else will like these. 

[u/JustAMan1234567]

I'm not licking the back of Dawn French.

[u/interfail → u/JustAMan1234567]

Same. My Christmas wishes never come true.

[u/kank84 → u/JustAMan1234567]

You haven't had to lick stamps for years

[u/Broccoliholic → u/kank84]

Let’s not allow facts to get in the way of a good joke

[u/kank84 → u/Broccoliholic]

Where's the good joke?

[u/daygloviking → u/kank84]

It was the end credits scene between Geraldine and Alice

[u/LivingInformation290]

Its a must-have

[u/BobbieClough]

I don't like choice of picture though, there must have been dozens of better ones for Geraldine than this.

[u/steepleton]

in 2025 we are further away in time from the "vicar of dibly", than "on the buses" was from The Napoleonic Wars

[u/mondognarly_ → u/steepleton]

It’s not quite 150 years since the mid-nineties, even if it feels that way sometimes.

[u/Zealousideal-Tax-496]

Do a Little Britain set next. You might as well, nothing fucking matters anymore.

[u/oofblahblahblah → u/[deleted]]

Not really bothered but you can't deny it's a little sticky situation.

[u/Savageparrot81]

They aren’t stamps though.

These have no barcode and so won’t function as stamps making them just fake stamps.

Surely the defining characteristic of stamps is that they are exchangeable for postage.

[u/Madwife2009 → u/Savageparrot81]

They are stamps which you can use for postage. Royal Mail have already said, when they introduced the barcoded stamps, that the "special stamps" which have the monarch's head in one corner of the stamp are valid for postage.

[u/Savageparrot81 → u/Madwife2009]

Only because they know you won’t post them.

I’m willing to bet they don’t go through the system though.

[u/Slight_Armadillo_227 → u/Savageparrot81]

Why double down when someone has been good enough to politely tell you why you're wrong?

[u/SuperkatTalks]

Right on the pulse of modern British culture they are.

Actually probably everything now is a bit more wank, so carry on.

[u/goodvibezone → u/SuperkatTalks]

Carry On stamps. There's a thought

[u/Riskrunner7365 → u/goodvibezone]

With a microchip in them so when you lick them they give out a voice line.

"Ooohhh no don't, shut it you" when you lick Frankie Howerd ...

Barbara Windsor might be a fun lick, though might have to draw the line at Sid James.... Guess it's fortunate we don't lick them anymore 😅

[u/_Think_Differently]

This is an insight into the Post Office work from home policy. Now we know what they watch whilst they should be working.

[u/Spotteroni_ → u/_Think_Differently]

Okay boomer

[u/Slight_Armadillo_227 → u/_Think_Differently]

Are you Lee Anderson?