2750. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Features Womens Rugby Team.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post - 

9 July 2025 - 125th anniversary of the birth of Syama Prasad Mookerji (nationalist) - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

 29 July 2025 - SEPAC, Architecture - 3 stamps. Designed from photographs by Maria Christina Bu.eja Mariah and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Illustrations awaited.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post - 

6 August 2025 - TheBlack Ferns women’s rugby team - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Dave Burke and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ***.

2749. 🇯🇪 Jersey Recalls 2024 Royal Visit.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

15 July 2025 - 1st anniversary of the visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Jersey - 6 stamps. Designed from photographs by Max Burnett and Andy Le Gresney and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇩 Postal service of Sudan -

July 2025 - 80th anniversary of the League of Arab States - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

9 July 2025 - EUROMED, Mediterranean resources - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2748. 🇲🇹 Malta Euromed Issue.

 

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

9 July 2025 - Euromed, Resources of the Mediterranean - 2 stamps. Designed by Mariah Grech and lithographed by Printex. Rating:- ***.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

21 July 2025 - ‘Cherished celebrations’ - 6 gummed and 6 self-adhesive stamps from booklets. Designed by Jo Muré and Jason Watts. Lithographed by RA Printing and EGO. Perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

4 July 2025 - Post and Go stamps, machine dispensed stamps in various denominations - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake and the Gibraltar skull (EUROPA stamp) - 1 stamp for each subject sold as strips of six with different face values. 

2747. 🇯🇪 Guernsey Post’s New £5 Definitives and ‘Cyberstamp’.

 

New issues - 

 🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

9 July 2025 - The Royal Guernsey Goat, £5 definitives and ‘Cyberstamp’ - 2 x £5 definitive stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps and 1 x £5 ‘Cyber stamp’ sold in a pack with the £10 miniature sheet cancelled in gold ink for a total of £15. Designed by Chris Griffiths.

Rating:- 0.

2746. Lovely Art Depicting Farm Animals Featured On Isle Of Man New Issue.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office - 

25 July 2025 - Farm animals in the Isle of Man - 6 stamps. Designed by EJC Design from artwork by Yolande Alberts and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 11.5. Lovely artwork but sadly just another excessive issue. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post -

28 June 2025 - Birth centenary of Acharya Vidyanand, Jain spiritual leader - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

29 June 2025 - 75th anniversary of the National Survey Sample, My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp. Issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.

June 2025 - Silver jubilee of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro- and Small Enterprises, My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp with attached label sold in a sheetlet of 12 stamps with attached labels at a premium price.

2745. 🇳🇦 Namibia Commemorates 80th Anniversary Of The United Nations.

 

New issues - 

🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -

26 March 2025 - 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 1 stamp. Designed by Helge Denker. Lithographed. Rating:-***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

28 June 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises, My Stamp personalised stamp - I stamp issued in a sheet of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.

  🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

2025 - Somewhat depressingly, Guernsey Post is once more announcing that it will be pressing ahead with ‘cyber stamps’ which were originally intended to be released in 2024 but were delayed due to a legal problem. This appears to be the same Golden Guernsey goat product held over from last year and further information will be released on 16 July 2025. We await the details with bated breath.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 - 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Mauritius 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Nigeria 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda 

St Kitts or St Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of June, 47 (53.4%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to not have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps on 2025. This compares with 58.2% at the end of May 2025 and 51.1% at the end of June 2024.

2744. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Features National Park In New Issue.

 

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post - 

26 June 2025 - Minneriya National Park - 10 stamps and 10 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

June 2025 - 85th anniversary of the evacuation of the island ahead of the occupation by Nazi German troops, Post and Go - ‘Jersey Flag’ stamp with additional inscription ‘85 Yrs Evacuation’ dispensed by machines JE03 (Postal HQ) and JE02 (Broad Street PO). Sold in strips with 6 different denominations.