Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 26 Tachwedd 1947.
No, it takes approximately nine months to design, print, and have in circulation a postage stamp—[HON. MEMBERS: "Why?"]—under the procedure usually adopted by the Department. The design of the stamp alone takes three months, and then it has to be submitted to His Majesty the King.