2836. 🇳🇿 New Zealand’s Chinese New Year Stamps.

 New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

26 January 2026 - Chinese new year, Year of the Horse - stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps and 1 ‘gold’ miniature sheet in a perspex disple stand sold for the equivalent of £81.59p. Designed by YMC Design, Wellington and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *.

🇫🇯 Fiji Post -

2025 - Surcharges- various values surcharged on previously issued $1 ‘Birds’ definitive stamp. Rating:- *****.

a. Surcharge XX - 16 stamps. 

b. surcharge XXX - 15 stamps -

2835. 🇿🇦 South Africa Commemorates Museum Bicentenary.

 

New issues -

🇿🇦 South African Post Office -

12 November 2025 - Bicentenary of Iziko South African Museum in Capetown - 1 sheetlet of 6 different self-adhesive stamps. Lithographed. The illustrations are from a post by Jan van Milligan on the Facebook page of the Philatelic Federation of South Africa and attention is drawn to the fact that while the first day covers are dated 12 November 2025, the ‘launch date’ was 12 December 2025. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post - 

4 December 2025 - 46th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, hosted by Bahrain - 3 stamps issued in sheetlets of 6 (2 strips made up of all 3 stamps). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

9 December 2025 - Christmas - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Rating:- ****.

2026 new programmes.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

Canada Post has announced that the following subjects are expected to be included in its 2026 new releases -

Black History Month - ‘Hip Hop pioneers’

Cultural traditions - Maple syrup month and sugar shacks

Wildlife - 4 species of wolves found in Canada

‘Places of Pride’

Centenary of the Royal Canadian Legion and commemoration of the role of Chinese Canadians in the Second World War

Blood donations

Seasonal issue - Jack o’Lanterns to be issued in October

Flowers - cherry blossoms

Eid

Diwali 

Hanukkah 

Christmas 

2834. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates World Children’s Day.

 

New issues - 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

20 November 2025 - World Children’s Day - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Designed by Mubashair Nassir, Abu Obadiah Ayaaz and Hasnain Mahmud and lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2025 - My Stamps, personalised stamps. Usually issued in sheetlets of 12 stamps with arrached labels and sold at a premium.

2025 + 25th anniversary of TransUnion CIBIL- 1 stamp.

2025 - Birth centenary of P. Obul Reddy, entrepreneur and philanthropist - 1 stamp.

2025 - Golden jubilee of Integrated Child Development Services - 1 stamp.

2025 - 550th anniversary of Shree Samstham Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Math - 1 stamp.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

8 December 2025 - Centenary of rubber research in Malaysia - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.