On 21 February 1968 [1] a new Post Office appointed committee was set up and today the SAC advises the United Kingdom's Royal Mail on their stamp issuing policy.
The committee's recommendations are not binding on Royal Mail, nor does it select new subjects for stamp issues.
In 1996 for instance, questions were asked in the House of Lords about the choice of a stamp showing the British children's television character Muffin the Mule over one showing the designer William Morris and a government minister was forced to explain that such choices were not part of the work of the SAC.
[4] The choice of subjects for a set honouring 20th Century Women of Achievement was equally controversial.
[5] And in 1965, Sir Kenneth Clark resigned as chairman of the committee in protest at the increasing commercialism of the Post Office's stamp issuing policy, saying "There had been a change of outlook in the production of stamps with which I was not in sympathy.