PHQ Cards are postcards depicting the design of a commemorative stamp issued by the British Post Office.
The 'PHQ' stands for Postal Headquarters, all items published by the Post Office are given a number which is prefixed by letters. The first card issued, was the 3p W.G. Grace stamp from the set of stamps commemorating County Cricket, issued on 16 May 1973, this card was numbered PHQ 1, the numbering sequence has continued to the present day.
There is, however, one gap in the sequence. The number PHQ24 was originally set aside for the 9p Silver Jubilee card {this card was issued after the rest of the set}, when it was issued the card was numbered PHQ22E. The set of Wildlife cards, issued 5 October 1977, had already been allocated the number PHQ25, so the number PHQ24 was never used.
The card I have has the number PHQ 346. It was issued by Royal Mail on 24 February 2011. Its name is Musicals (Return to the Forbidden Planet), and there are 7 more in this collection.
And there is also a great stamp with polar bear. It was issued on 22 March 2011 in the WWF set.
WWF is the world’s most experienced environmental charity and in 2011, it celebrates its 50th anniversary.Created in 1961, the World Wildlife Fund, as it was then known, was formed by a group of eminent wildlife experts who launched the conservation organisation to tackle environmental problems across the world.
Royal Mail is issuing a total of 14 stamps to mark the anniversary of the foundation of the WWF.
1st Class – Polar Bear
With 20-25,000 polar bears living in the wild, the species is not currently endangered, but its future is far from certain. If current warming trends continue, scientists believe that polar bears will be vulnerable to extinction within the next century.
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