Yes, it was pronounced as tuppence.

Cheque books of thirty cheques used to cost five shillings and if I remember correctly had a printed symbol that the twopence had been paid rather than a physical stamp.

If drawing money of two pounds or more out of a savings account at a bank one had to pay twopence for a stamp, just like a postage stamp, but a different colour.

In my experience bank cashiers seemed to expect me to have penny coins in my pocket readily available for the transaction. If I asked for the twopence to be taken from the account they did so but seemed rather put out about it.

Stamps at that time bore the words "Postage" and "Revenue". The same stamp was used.

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As in ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’:

Half a pound of twopenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel

I’ve see it written both ways, but I don’t recall ever seeing Bertolt Brecht’s play The Threepenny Opera referred to with ‘Threepenny’ spelled as ‘Thrupenny’, despite its being pronounced that way.

My spoll chacker marks both ‘Thrupenny’ and ‘Thruppenny’ as misspelled. However, ‘tuppence’ is accepted.

The codes are unique for each stamp value. They would soon run out of codes if they were unique to each stamp.

The barcodes provide access to exclusive video content. The first of these videos featured Shaun the sheep and his four-legged friends, so I suppose the code for that one could reasonably have been called a “baacode”!

Please imagine three Euler circles.

A large one for All present years UK postage stamps

A medium one that is entirely within that one for All special issue stamps

A small one that is entirely within that one for All Christmas stamps

Then the stamps without the so-called barcodes are the ones in the ring doughnut area of the Euler diagram.

All of the other stamps within the largest of these Euler circles do have these so-called barcodes.

Nooo.

If not unique, I wonder if at sometime someone will be accused of trying to use a previously used stamp when they have not!