Maybe your stamps are on the table next to the birthday card you forgot to send.

Or in that random drawer full of pens, pennies and paperclips.

Or stuck to your fridge behind a do-list and a magnet from Malaga.

Or maybe just maybe, then neatly placed in a completely sensible spot.

After the 31st of January 2023, regular stamps without a barcode will no longer be valid.

So if you know where your old ones are, this is your last chance to use them up.

Or you can swap them.

For more info visit RoyalMail.com slash barcoded stamps.

As the way I heard it.

No one knows for sure where the epidemic originated.

Some believe it started in a wet market where animals were butchered and sold to the public.

Others maintain it was developed in a medical facility.

Regardless of its origins, the epidemic officially began as all epidemics do with patient zero.

In this case, patient zero was a 43-year-old mother of five with a pre-existing condition.

According to medical records, she was out for an evening stroll when she experienced

a sudden shortness of breath followed by an inability to swallow or speak.

In moments, her breathing became labored, her heart rate skyrocketed, and her blood pressure dropped.

Ironically, she collapsed a hundred yards from the hospital, just a few steps from where her life might have been saved.

The experts were baffled by patient zero's sudden demise.

Baffled, but not worried.

A single unexplained fatality was no reason to assume an epidemic was on the horizon, especially when the victim was already at risk.

But then, a week later, patient zero was followed, as patient zero's always are, by patient number two,

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