2679. 🇫🇯 More Fiji Surcharges. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues -

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

6 March 2025 - Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education) - 2 self-adhesive stamps. Designed by Detail from illustrations by Steve Doogan and lithographed in sheetlets of 8 stamps by Enschedé. Rating:- **.

 

🇫🇯 Fiji Post -

2024 - More surcharges on previously issued ‘Birds’ definitive stamps (63c and 81c) - 15 stamps (see also Blog 2677), new values or surcharges in form of XX instead of XXX. Rating:- ****.

2678. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Garden Wildlife Stamps In Detail.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

 

11 March 2025 - Garden wildlife - 10 gummed stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5, total cost £12.50) & 1 Collectors sheet of 10:different self-adhesive stamps with attached labels (cost £13.70). Previously featured in Blog 2676 but now with production details and better quality illustrations. Designed by Stop, Look & Listen and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Total cost of products - £26.20.  Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post -

March 2025 - 60th anniversary of Bharat Scouts and Guides Movement, My Stamp personalised stamp sold through India Post in a sheetlet of with attached labels and sold at a premium price.

2677. 🇧🇲 🇫🇯 Bermuda To Feature Local Whales; More Fiji Surcharges.

New issues -

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

20 March 2025 - Whales of Bermuda waters - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇫🇯 Fiji Post -

?2024 - Additional surcharged definitives - 15 stamps. Previously issued ‘Bird’ definitives reissued with surcharges applied to 63c and 81c values to create new values. The stamps are generally in two forms - with ‘XX’ or ‘XXX’ obliterating the original values as illustrated below -

See also Blogs 2504 and 2534.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

February 2025 - Centenary of Patna Medical School and Hospital, My Stamp personalised stamp sold by India Post - 1 stamp with attached label sold in sheetlets of 12 at a premium price. 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

3 March 2025 - Centenary of the Jhelum Military College - 1 stamp. Designed by ‘the customer’(presumably, the Military College) and lithographed National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating:- **.

2676. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Features Garden Wildlife.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

11 March 2025 - Garden wildlife - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5 - 2nd Class domestic rate mail x 1 strip and 1st Class domestic rate mail x 1). There will also probably be a Collectors sheet containing the 10 stamps with attached labels. Further details are awaited. A tenth stamp in the set depicts a Garden snail. (illustration to be added).  This edition will be revised when more information and better illustrations are available.

  As with all the issues so far in 2025, there is no real reason why a set on this subject should be issued at this time especially against a background of monstrous excessive issuing of stamps by Royal Mail. Additionally while the United Kingdom has a fascinating population of species of wildlife this set depicts many British creatures previously featured, sometimes more than once, on stamps.The stamps are moderately attractive but excessive and even quite dull in the choice of subject. Rating:- *.

2675. 🇳🇿 New Zealand To Issue Exhibition Miniature Sheet.

 New Issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

7 March 2025 - Royalpex 2025 National Philatelic Exhibition held in Palmerston North - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 of the previously issued ‘Native Pollinators’ stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

19 February 2025 - 7th National Comdeca - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Unissued stamps.

🇸🇸 Postal service of South Sudan

2024 - South Sudan sporting associations - 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps. This item is currently on sale on an internet auction site. It is being offered by Aures Collections, a name which will be familiar to collectors, particularly of African new issues. This item is described as being intended for issue in 2024 (though it is dated 2023)  and as being “unissued”. It has the inscription ‘SPECIMEN 34’ at the lower right and is being offered for sale at a price of around £199. A single stamp depicting the emblem of the South Sudan Football Association is also being offered for sale for £74.71. These are not issued stamps which need to be included in any collection of South Sudan but it is interesting to see what items are offered for sale especially from this particular source.

2674. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man’s Europa Stamp Features Vikings.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

8 April 2025 - EUROPA, ‘Sea kings’ (medieval Viking rulers of the Isle of Man) - 6 stamps. The £2.26 EUROPA stamp is issued a special sheetlet of 6. Art by Juan Moore and designed by EJC Design and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. I like the stamps and I like the way the IOM Post Office values Manx history in a way that Royal Mail does not but this is another excessive issue released for no obvious reason. Rating:- *.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

3 March 2025 - Peonies - 2 self-adhesive stamps from coils and 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10:(5 of each stamp) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps. Designed by Stéphane Huot and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ***.