2689. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Commemorates Uprising Of July 2024.

 

New Issues -

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

30 December 2024 - Festival of Youth - 1 stamp. Lithographed by The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Rating:- ***.

9 February 2025 - The July Uprising which led to the overthrow of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Rating:- *****. A modest stamp commemorating a highly significant historical event.

19 February 2025 - Mother Language Day - 1 stamp. Designed by Md Boni Adam and lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Perforated 12.5. Rating:- **.

Trump and The Commonwealth.

  There has been a lot of nonsense published in the press in the past day or so about the President of the United States, Trump, expressing the view that he would like his country to become an Associate Member of The Commonwealth. This idea is said to have arisen from the suggestion that the Royal Commonwealth Society has issued a secret invitation for The United States to take on such a role. The Royal Commonwealth Society is not the sort of organisation that can issue invitations to countries to join The Commonwealth; there is no ‘Associate Membership’ status in The Commonwealth: The King is not in a position to invite countries to join The Commonwealth - it is necessary for all 56 Member States together to extend an invitation to join and when the United States President is talking about an important Commonwealth country such as Canada becoming the 51st state of the USA very much against its citizens’ will, then these reports are clearly nothing short of Trumpery moonshine.

  All this fake news, to use Trump’s own expression, comes as the United States Postal Service has announced that it intends to issue a sheetlet of 15 self-adhesive stamps showing battlefields of the rebellion against the British Crown which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on 19 April 1765, 250 years ago. Trump claims to admire King Charles III rather more than his predecessors seem to have admired King George III.

2688. 🇲🇹 More Fine Mediterranean Cats From Malta.

 

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

4 April 2025 - Cats, second issue. Designed by Andrew Micallef and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Commemoration of the late Brian Mulroney, 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 - 1993. - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 10. Designed by Paprika using a photograph taken by Bill McCarthy and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

New issue programmes 2025 - 

🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -

2687. 🇬🇧🇿🇼 UK Myths And Legends; Zimbabwe Plans Five 2025 Issues Including Cryptostamp.

New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

27 March 2025 - Myths and legends - 8 stamps. Designed by Godfrey Design and lithographed Cartor by and perforated 14.5. Total face value £13.20p. Clearer illustrations than those depicted in the previous Blog are now shown.

🇹🇷 Postal service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -

20 March 2025 - ‘Productive youth in vocational high schools’, Teknofest. 2 stamps. Digitally printed  by Devlet Basimevi (State Printing Office, Lefkoșa. Rating:- ****.

New issue Programmes for 2025 -

ZimPost (postal service of Zimbabwe) -

2686. 🇬🇧🇵🇬 Royal Mail Myths And Legends; Papua New Guinea Freshwater Fish Issue. 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

27 March 2025 - British myths and legends - 8 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 4 x1st Class stamps). Poor quality illustrations (to be replaced when better quality illustrations become available. Designs depict legends from various parts of the United Kingdom including Beowulf and Grendel (an early piece of Anglo-Saxon literature), Black Shuck (a postman’s nightmare) and the Loch Ness Monster (a Tourism officer’s dream). Further details to be added. As with all issues so far this year  this item is not related to any event or notable anniversary but I suppose it is fun and, in line with Royal Mail’s new policy, devoid of the more expensive Overseas mail rates.

🇵🇬 PNG Post (Postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

Originally stated to have been issued in November 2022 - Freshwater fish - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing all 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2685. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Commemorates Pasifika Festival. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2 April 2025 - Pasifika Festival, Auckland (festival of Polynesian culture). Designed by Nick Jarvis and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Issued in individual sheets for each value and in sheets containing se-tenant blocks of 4 as well as one miniature sheet contains a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, Joint issue with postal services of the People’s Republic of China and Macao - 1 miniature sheet containing the sets of all 3 territories, sold in a special pack which also contains a joint first day cover of the 3 territories’ stamps. Rating:- ***.

2684. 🇬🇧 🇬🇬 New Royal Mail Definitives and Guernsey Europa.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

27 March 2025 - New definitives necessitated by revised international postal rates - 3 stamps (total face value £11). Printed in gravure by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey 

Post -

1 May 2025 - National archaeological discoveries, EUROPA (£1.37 and £1.47 values) - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

24 April 2025 - Hong Kong Museum Collection, Fuyun Yuan collection of snuff bottles - 6 stamps, 2 miniature sheets and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 of each stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.