{"id":1000,"date":"2012-12-27T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-08-05T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:54:11","slug":"letter-from-a-time-traveller-royal-mail-to-issue-doctor-who-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/12\/27\/letter-from-a-time-traveller-royal-mail-to-issue-doctor-who-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from a Time Traveller: Royal Mail to Issue Doctor Who Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalmail.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/docstamp.jpg?resize=170%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\" alt=\"Image of First Doctor Stamp via Royal Mail\" title=\"Image of First Doctor Stamp via Royal Mail\" border=\"0\" width=\"170\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Though it might be a poor use of a time machine, if given the keys to the TARDIS, I think I&#8217;d jump to March, 2013, to grab <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121230182636\/https:\/\/www.royalmail.com\/doctorwho\">the Royal Mail&#8217;s planned <em>Doctor Who<\/em> stamps<\/a>. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-20838728\">reported by the BBC<\/a>, each of the eleven Doctors will receive a first class stamp, with various enemies on second class stamps. There&#8217;s also to be a first class stamp of the TARDIS itself.<\/p>\n<p>The backgrounds for the stamps of the eleven Doctors draw from the opening titles sequences of their respective seasons and utilize the contemporaneous <em>Doctor Who<\/em> logo as well. As is typical, William Hartnell comes out looking classy as ever. (Poor Sylvester McCoy&mdash;that background does him few favors).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll definitely be picking up a few sets of these when they arrive, though I do confess to a bit of curmudgeonly disappointment that the second class enemies are all drawn from the new series. Ood and Weeping Angels before the Ice Warriors and Daemons?<\/p>\n<p>(Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalmail.com\">Royal Mail<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it might be a poor use of a time machine, if given the keys to the TARDIS, I think I&#8217;d jump to March, 2013, to grab the Royal Mail&#8217;s planned Doctor Who stamps. As reported by the BBC, each of the eleven Doctors will receive a first class stamp, with various enemies on second &#8230; <a title=\"Letter from a Time Traveller: Royal Mail to Issue Doctor Who Stamps\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/12\/27\/letter-from-a-time-traveller-royal-mail-to-issue-doctor-who-stamps\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Letter from a Time Traveller: Royal Mail to Issue Doctor Who Stamps\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14,192],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who","tag-stamps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-g8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}