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Royal Mail apologises after D-Day landing commemorative stamp Twitter gaffe

Royal Mail has been forced to apologies today after it emerged a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France actually showed US troops going ashore several weeks earlier thousands of miles away.

The stamp was part of a series marking the 75th anniversary of the June 1944 landings, the largest seaborne military operation in history to liberate Normandy from the control of Nazi Germany.

But after the company shared a preview of the stamp on Twitter, users noticed it showed US troops alighting boats in May 1944 in Dutch New Guinea, now Indonesia. The scene is unrelated to the D-Day landings.

 

"We sincerely apologise that our 2019 Special Stamp preview included a design which had been incorrectly associated with the D-Day landings," Royal Mail said on Twitter.

"This stamp design has not been printed. We would like to reassure our customers that this image will not be part of the final set."

https://twitter.com/RoyalMail/status/1078605151055822848

But the apology did not prevent Twitter users poking fun at the postal service, with some creating their own mock-ups of the ‘D-Day landings’.

https://twitter.com/ChrisWizzGTi/status/1078586718595502081

Meanwhile, others took the opportunity to vent their own, separate frustrations with the company.

https://twitter.com/beard_minis/status/1078577101429706752