Rare Postage Stamp Discovered

A rare 29p postage stamp has been found by a mail worker in Leeds. The lucky finder, Mr Tim Gleeful, of Bingley said that he was rifling though some old drawers and just found it. "It was like finding a credit card in a letter in the sorting office," he said.

The stamp, which was once used for sending letters, first class up to 100g in weight, is still legal tender. However, it is not in common usage since the new post size regulations were introduced. The old 29p stamp can only be used for postcards weighing less than 1g and no greater than the size of a postage stamp.

Mr Gleeful planned to auction the stamp off on eBay, with a reserve price of 28p and hoped that it might find it's way into the hands of a collector.