Royal Mail campaign

As we went to press, the GCA was urging members to have their say in its survey on Royal Mail and the issues affecting the greetings industry.

David Falkner, director at Cardology GCA Council member and lead on the GCA’s Royal Mail sub-committee told members: ‘’To my mind, there is no bigger single issue affecting our industry than our end customers’ ability to send the cards they’ve purchased. If last Christmas taught us anything, it was that we shouldn’t take this ability for granted.

‘’Your responses give Amanda [Fergusson, GCA CEO] and the team a massive mandate for the lobbying they undertake in the background every single day, and it’s working! We have learned that messages we’ve recently championed made it onto the Labour Party’s policy priorities. And Amanda discussed the same directly with the Government Minister responsible for post; Kevin Hollinrake, and Ofcom announced a further investigation into Royal Mail’s Letter’s performance over 2022-23.’’

Duggoons Greeting Cards is making its debut in Springboard Intro at PG Live this June. Based in S.E. London, Duggoons is (currently) a oneman band consisting of Peter Duggan (“That’s me!” shouts the sweaty guy lugging the amps and drum kit onto the stage). Positive sales and feedback with both Etsy and Greenwich Market has finally convinced him, ok me, that it is high time I stopped selling directly to the customer and let the experts have a go. How it started: Having long been in the habit of both painting and making short funny films, some close friends strongly suggested that I should consider becoming a cartoonist. They reasoned it would combine my love of hand-drawn imagery with comedy. This seemed outlandish – I had never drawn cartoons before – but in giving it a go I realised it took far less time than making a film, and for much the same comic payoff. I also stumbled upon the fact that the history of art was an untouched goldmine of comic potential. I drew five, sent them out into the world and to my delight and dawning terror I was offered a weekly strip in The Guardian online (Peter Duggan’s Artoons). During this threeand-a-half-year period of publicly honing