All the headlines I seemed to notice was the "howls of protest" that the Queen in not on the printout. Apparently these are not stamps and are classifies as online postage (even though the business equivalent, that has been around for some time, is actually called SmartStamp), and therefore do not need to have Her Majesty adorned all over it. Apparently, modern printers would not do the Queen justice (even though they apparently can handle the very intricate details for the electronic readers).

I find the whole issue rather amusing but just wonder at the management of the Royal Mail who could not foresee that this would upset the traditionalists. It makes no difference one way or the other, really, so would it have mattered if they HAD included the image and saved the headlines "Off with her head!"

But the Crozier did used to head up the Football Association - say no more!