New issues -
๐ฌ๐ฌ Guernsey Post -
23 July 2025 - Bicentenary of the former St James Church and now cultural centre, SEPAC, Architecture - 4 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:-**.
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New issues -
๐ฌ๐ฌ Guernsey Post -
23 July 2025 - Bicentenary of the former St James Church and now cultural centre, SEPAC, Architecture - 4 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:-**.
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore Post -
?2024 - ‘Tracked post box prepaid label’, parcel post costing S$40 (equivalent to £23) for a pack and S$2.80 for 1 stamp (thanks to PE PHIL for correcting me on an error regarding the price). This item seems to fulfill all the criteria needed to be defined as a (parcel) postage stamp (definition of a postage stamp - “a small adhesive label issued by postal authorities that an affixed to an envelope, postcard or package as evidence that postage has been paid”). Rating:- ****.
New issues -
๐ฆ๐บ Australia Post -
24 June 2025 - International postage, Opals of Australia - 3 stamps. Designed by Sharon Rodziewicz and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand Post -
2 July 2025 - Native Frogs - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Nick Jarvie and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- **.
๐ฎ๐ณ India Post -
2025 - The Chenab railway bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge, on the Jammu to Srinagar railway line, personalised My Stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp with an attached label printed in a sheetlet of 12 and sold at a premium price.
New issues -
๐ฎ๐ช An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland)
5 June 2025 + Contemporary Irish art - 4 self-adhesive stamps issued in a booklet costing €6.40. Designed by Atelier David Smith and lithographed by Enschedรฉ. Rating:- ****.
๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri Lanka Post -
4 June 2025 - Revenue stamp, Rs1000 - 1 stamp. This is described as a ‘Revenue stamp’ but illustrations show it used postally as a first day cover and so one may question whether or not this is both a postal and a revenue stamp.
New issues -
๐ฌ๐ง Royal Mail -
12 June 2025 - 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich - 6 stamps (3 se-tenant pairs, all 1st Class domestic rate) (cost £10.20),1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (cost £6.80) and 1 Prestige booklet (cost £24.79) containing 4 panes, one of which is a pane of 4 King Charles III definitives (2 x 2nd Class & 2 x 50p values). Designed by Steers McGillen Eves and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5.The definitive pane is self-adhesive & printed in gravure. Rating:- .*****.
๐ฏ๐ช Jersey Post -
5 May 2025 - EUROPA, Archaeological discoveries - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 stamps inscribed ‘EUROPA’ (part of set of 6 - see Blogs 2701 and 2706). This item has not previously been reported here. Lithographed by bpost.