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	<title>Comments on: Help! Help! I&#8217;m not being oppressed.</title>
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	<description>Ponderings of an Essex boy exiled in Lancashire</description>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://www.shrimper.org.uk/christianity/2007/12/05/help-help-im-not-being-oppressed#comment-1457</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found the above statement on the Facebook group to which you had left a link in your blog post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found the above statement on the Facebook group to which you had left a link in your blog post.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for this - has that statement been posted anywhere or was it an e-mailed response?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for this - has that statement been posted anywhere or was it an e-mailed response?</p>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://www.shrimper.org.uk/christianity/2007/12/05/help-help-im-not-being-oppressed#comment-1454</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Royal Mail has been pleased to clarify the situation which is that no such instruction has been made, but that with 14,000 post offices around the country practice might vary as to what customers are offered. They have made the following statement:

"There is absolutely no intention on our part to suppress sales of the Madonna and Child stamps in order to be able to claim there is low demand for religious stamps in future years. Indeed, we have produced tens of millions of them, and we want to sell them!! We have given publicity to both types of Christmas stamps, and the availability of both has been widely covered in the national and local press. Furthermore we plan to have the Madonna and Child stamps available every Christmas in future, alongside each year's "special" set, which will continue to alternate between religious and secular themes."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Royal Mail has been pleased to clarify the situation which is that no such instruction has been made, but that with 14,000 post offices around the country practice might vary as to what customers are offered. They have made the following statement:</p>
<p>&#8220;There is absolutely no intention on our part to suppress sales of the Madonna and Child stamps in order to be able to claim there is low demand for religious stamps in future years. Indeed, we have produced tens of millions of them, and we want to sell them!! We have given publicity to both types of Christmas stamps, and the availability of both has been widely covered in the national and local press. Furthermore we plan to have the Madonna and Child stamps available every Christmas in future, alongside each year&#8217;s &#8220;special&#8221; set, which will continue to alternate between religious and secular themes.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The made-up religious stamps crisis &#187; The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker</title>
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		<dc:creator>The made-up religious stamps crisis &#187; The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I don&#8217;t know. I, like this blogger, think the e-mail is all a lot of nonsense. If you are a Royal Mail employee who has been [...]</description>
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