Send A Little Love by Royal Mail

Royal Mail is lending its support to villagers of Lover who are this year launching a campaign aimed at broadening the appeal of Valentine’s Day by encouraging the nation to send cards to everyone they have missed over the past year.

The campaign 'Send A Little Love' aims to broaden the appeal of Valentine's Day and make it a day to remember for that special someone, a missed relative, parted friends and lonely neighbours.

The villagers are determined to provide their special Valentine’s Day Lover postmark on Valentine’s cards and letters despite the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and the associated lockdown.

The famous postal service is all online this year due to lockdown rules and the village cupids will be working from home to stamp each card with their special postmark before it is sent anywhere in the world.

Royal Mail, which continues to deliver during the lockdown, is lending its full support to the village so that the nation can reach out in style to much missed friends, family and loved ones over the past year.

The village postal service helps everyone send a little love with a range of beautifully designed cards with personalised messages, all lovingly sealed with the Lover cachet stamp before being sent on its way by the village postie.

This year, the Lover Village Valentine post service has added two special cards to the collection that particularly appeal to grandparents and friends. The first features Stanley, the village mascot with the iconic rainbow symbol.

The second was designed by the local pre-school and features a cartoon child holding a bunch of heart balloons. The iconic Lover village card is still proving popular every year as are the pop-up cards designed by Cardology.

The website lover.org.uk is already taking orders and will ensure all orders arrive in time for 14th February. The Lover Community Trust, responsible for the postal service, has provided the option to make an online donation to two NHS charities as another way to say 'thank you'.

With a Valentine card being sent to a scientist working in Antarctica last year, Lover village is providing a global service having sent cards to every continent on the planet and over 4,000 cards sent abroad in the 5 years of operating.

The small village of Lover in Wiltshire is close to the county border with Hampshire. It is within the New Forest National Park and part of the Redlynch parish.

When it comes to sending Valentine’s Day parcels, this year online shoppers also have the option of having Valentine’s parcels collected from their doorstep with Royal Mail’s new service - Parcel Collect.