2204. 🇲🇹 Colourful Malta Issue Features Father Christmas’ Workshop.

 

New issues.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

29 November 2022 - Christmas, ‘Santa’s workshop’ - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps. Designed by Fabio Agius and lithographed by Printex. Perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

25 November 2022 - 175th anniversary of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth entities whose postal services are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far during 2022 - 

Anguilla 

Belize 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cook Islands Rarotonga 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon 

Lesotho 

Montserrat 

Niue

Rwanda 

St Kitts 

Saint Lucia 

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

Tokelau 

Uganda 

Vanuatu 

At the end of November 2022 therefore 20 entities remain on the list, two fewer than at the end of October. Therefore 22.5% of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued (or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2022. This compares with 24.7% at the end of October, 31.5% at the end of September, 33.1% at the end of August and 42.3% at the end of July. At the end of November 2021, 20 entities also had not issued any postage stamps.