Charlotte Dujardin's 2nd Gold celebrated with next day Olympic Gold Medal stamp

Royal Mail will produce a stamp in 24 hours to honour Charlotte Dujardin’s gold medal triumph in the Equestrian Individual Dressage final. This follows her win in the Dressage Team Grand Prix on Tuesday.

The stamps will be on sale by lunchtime tomorrow in over 500 Post Offices across the UK. Many of these branches are opening on Sundays for the first time during the Games, so fans can celebrate Team GB’s achievements and start a unique and special London 2012 souvenir collection.

The Gold Medal stamp will be available tomorrow at the Post Office in Charlotte’s hometown of Enfield. Royal Mail will also paint a second post box gold in Newent, Gloucestershire, where Charlotte lives and trains, to recognise her second gold medal achievement. The first gold box is located on Colman Parade in Enfield.

Customers can also purchase the stamps from tomorrow at www.royalmail.com/goldmedalstamps and from Royal Mail’s customer service centre on 08457 641 641 located at Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9PB.

As soon as Charlotte won her gold medal, Getty Images, the official Photo Agency of the IOC, submitted a selection of the best images from that moment to the eight-strong Royal Mail design team. The Royal Mail design team had just one hour to review all the images sent, locate the most fitting and atmospheric image, crop and refine the photo, add Charlotte’s name, then position within the templated design of the six-stamp miniature sheet.

On stand-by, poised to collect the completed sheets once printed, are a fleet of 90 Royal Mail vehicles ready to deliver them to over 500 Post Offices to be on sale by lunchtime today.

An additional 4,700 post offices will receive the Gold Medal stamps within a week.