2556. 🇦🇬🇩🇲🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨 Caribbean ECCB Omnibus Stamps

New issues -

🇦🇬🇩🇲🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨 - Joint issue by the postal services of Antigua And Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent And The Grenadines -

19 July 2024 - 40th anniversary of the Eastern Caribbean Community Bank (described in previous Blogs including Blog 2549) 2 miniature sheets for each postal service. These issues are now illustrated below -

🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda -

🇩🇲 Dominica -

🇬🇩 Grenada - 

🇰🇳 St Kitts And Nevis -

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia -

🇻🇨 Sr Vincent And The Grenadines -

🇬🇩 Grenada Postal Corporation -

1 August 2024 - Joint issue with the postal service of the Republic of Korea, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Grenada and Korea - 2 stamps. Issue previously described in Blog 2541 but better quality illustrations are now provided -

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps this year up until the end of August -

Aitutaki Cook Islands 

Anguilla 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cook Islands including Rarotonga

Gabon 

Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique 

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Niue

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad And Tobago 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, by the end of August, 37 of the 89 (41.6%) Commonwealth philatelic entities (Mozambique has been added to the list as it once more has a functioning postal service) are not known to have issued or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2024. This compares with the figure of 43 (48.9%) at the end of July 2024 and the figure of 33 out of 88 (37.5) at the end of August 2023.