2335. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Wildlife Issue Includes Collectors Sheet.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

13 July 2023 - River wildlife - 10 stamps and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 different stamps with attached labels and costing £10.45. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. See Blog 2326 - this report now includes better quality illustrations and additional information. Rating:- ****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

28 June 2023 - Commemoration of Denys Arnand, cinema screenwriter and director - 1 self-adhesive stamp from booklets of 6. Designed by Paprika using a photograph by Bertrand Carrière. Lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ***.

2334. 🇬🇬 New Guernsey £10 Definitive Depicts King Charles III.

 

New issues.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

5 September 2023 - £10 Definitive, King Charles III - 1 stamp. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****. I like the slightly rakish angle of the crown on the King’s head. Expensive but historic.

19 July 2023 - ‘Quartets’, the Little Chapel part 3 - 1 stamp. Further details awaited. Rating:- ***.

Tweets reporting Post and Go issues with additional one day only inscriptions commemorating visiting cruise ships.

22 June 2023 - Visit of Azmara Princess -

26 June 2023 - Return visit of Regal Princess -

28 June 2023 - Visit of Aurora -

🇰🇼 Kuwait Post -

26 February 2023 - 32nd anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation, Martyrs of Kuwait - 5 sheets each containing 20 different stamps making a total of 100 stamps. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal services are not known to have issued or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps -

Anguilla

Belize

British Indian Ocean Territory 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon

Kenya

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru

Nevis

Nigeria 

Niue 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts 

Saint Lucia

Samoa

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

Tokelau

Trinidad And Tobago 

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Uganda 

United Republic Of Tanzania 

Vanuatu

Zambia

By the end of June therefore 33 out of 88 (37.5%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities had not yet issued, or were not yet known to have issued, or were not known to have had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2023. This compares with 43.8% at the end of June 2022.

2333. 🇸🇬 Singapore New Issue Features National Monuments.

 

New issues.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

30 June 2023 - National monuments - 5 stamps. Designed by Sonny Lee and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13.Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

19 July 2023 - 75th anniversary of regional stamps - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *****.

19 July 2023 - Sepac, Traditional markets, Bicentenary of Guernsey’s market halls - 4 stamps. Designed by Chris Griffiths and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ****.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

25 June 2023 - Tenth anniversary of the succession of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad as Emir of Qatar - 4 stamps. Rating:- ****.

2332. 🇸🇱🇦🇺🇹🇬🇬🇧🇯🇪 The Commonwealth‘s Greediest Stamp Issuing Postal Administrations Of 2022.

 

🇸🇱🇦🇺🇹🇬🇬🇧🇯🇪 The Commonwealth’s Greediest Stamp Issuing Postal Administrations of 2022.

See Blog 2063. 

As usual this list is put together by using the total number of stamps* known to have been issued by each separate Commonwealth postal administration or their agents during the course of 2022. In some ways it might be more meaningful to add up the the total face value of every stamp but this is far too difficult for me to do in terms of time available to do the necessary research so I have again chosen the easier option and I believe the list gives some impression of what is happening on the Commonwealth stamps scene and which postal administrations appear to being the most abusive in terms of excessive stamp issuing.

* Here ‘stamps’ includes all postally valid stamps, miniature sheets, booklets, machine-dispensed stamps, ‘Collectors sheets’ and stamps for personalisation sold through post offices or their philatelic bureaux but not most deliberately created varieties such as imperforate versions. 

As collectors know, some postal administrations - for example, Australia, Guernsey, Cook Islands and Tonga, United Kingdom - produce, or have produced on their behalf, stamps with the names of part of their territory printed on them even though those part territories do not have separate postal administrations. In this survey the part territories are included in the overall total of issues released by the main postal service.

 Position.  Postal service.                 Annual total.       Position in 2021.

1.             Salpost (Sierra Leone)      612.                       -    (0)

2.             Australia Post.                   575.                       1   (662)

3.             Royal Mail                         241                        2   (190)

4.             La Poste du Togo               234.                        -   (Not in Commonwealth)

5.              Jersey Post.                      145.                        4.   (142)

6.              Isle Of Man Post Office.  134.                        5.   (110)

7.              Guernsey Post (including Alderney). 133.     7.     (97)

8=.           India Post                         86.                           -

8=.           New Zealand Post.           86.                           9.     (83)

10=          Cook Islands inc. Aitutaki & Penrhyn) 72.   -

10=          Tonga Post inc. Niuafo’ou 72.                       -

12.            Sri Lanka Post.                  65.                       13.     (51)

13.            Singapore Post.                 61.                        6.       (98)

14=.         Antigua & Barbuda (IGPC)  55.                     -

14=.          Nevis (IGPC).                   55.           

The Commonwealth’s least greedy postal administrations during 2022 were -

1=.             Anguilla postal service (0)

1=.             Belize postal service (0)           

1=.             British Indian Ocean Territory postal service (0)

1=.             British Virgin Islands postal service (0)

1=.             Cam Post (Cameroon) (0)

1=.             Dominica postal service (0)

1=.             eSwatini Post and Telecommunications (0)

1=.             Gabon La Poste (0)

1=.             Lesotho postal service (0)

1=.             Montserrat postal service (0)

1=.             Niue postal service (0)

1=.             Bounty Post (Pitcairn Islands) (0)

1=.              iPosita (Rwanda) (0)

1=.              St Kitts postal service (0)

1=.              Saint Lucia postal service (0)

1=.              Solomon Islands Postal Corporation (0)

1=.              Tokelau postal service  (0)

1=.              Vanuatu Post (0)

19=.             Postal Corporation of Kenya (1)

19=.             Maldives Post (1)

19=.             Naoero Post (Nauru) (1)

19=.             Nigeria postal service (1)

19=.             Seychelles postal service (1)

19=.             South African Post Office (1)

          

  

2331. 🇧🇼 Diamond Industry Aspects Feature On New Botswana Definitives.

 

New issues -

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

23 June 2023 - Definitive, the diamond industry in Botswana - 16 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Totang Motoloki and lithographed by Brebner Print. Rating:- *****.

 

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

27 June 2023 - Mountains of Malaysia - 2 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.