First is the barcodes. I used to collect stamps as a child, and remember looking carefully at the phosphor bands on them, used so that the sorting machines could tell the difference between first and second class stamps. Barcodes are the 21st century version of making life easier for machines.
Second is a new head. For my entire life, the only time I have seen a UK stamp with a head other than the queen's was while looking in my stamp album, or at antique postcards and letters. So when I saw the first new king's head stamp, I had a weird flashback to this period.
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