2840. 🎄Happy Christmas!

 

🎄 Happy Christmas!

New issues -

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post  -

21 December 2025 - Centenary of Mandalay University - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

15 December 2025 - Great Victory Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Government Printer, Gazipur. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

22 December 2025 - Medicinal plants - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps. 

22 December 2025 - Centenary of the Association of Indian Universities - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

2839. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Stranger Things Issue Makes Internet Appearance.

 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

13 January 2026 - Stranger Things, American television programme (of no significance at all to the United Kingdom) - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps plus other items including a Prestige booklet costing £28.45. These illustrations of presentations packs can be seen on the internet from 2 different sources. Rating:- 0. 

British stamps should celebrate Britain in all its aspects. Royal Mail has sunk to the level of Stamperija. It surprises me that Buckingham Palace approves this rubbish; it seems demeaning to place the King’s cameo on products such as these which have no relevance ro the country over which he reigns. One can only imagine what George V would have had to say about it all.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

10 December 2025 - 75th anniversary of Peshawar University - 1 stamp. Designed by the ‘customer’ and lithographed by Pakistan Seurity Printing Corporation Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2026 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse - 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 2 ‘Heartwarming’ personalised stamps with attached labels issued in sheetlets of16. Designed by Wong Chun-Hong & lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

2838. 🇬🇬 Guernsey Post To Feature Rare Birds On Alderney Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇬🇬 Issues inscribed Alderney -

11 February 2026 - 10th anniversary of the Alderney Bird Observatory - 6 stamps (there may be additional items - details awaited). Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

13 December 2025 - 150th anniversary of the Bombay Gymkhana - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

14 December 2025 - Perumbidhugu Mutharaiya - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

16 December 2025 - Birth centenary of Arudra, poet, lyricist and writer - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

18 December 2025 - PABEX Philatelic Exhibition 2025 held in Dhaka - Previously issued Ghavial stamps with overprint applied - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

2837. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Issue To Feature Stranger Things.

 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

13 January 2026 - Stranger Things - It appears that the first issue of 2026 (made up of a multitude of expensive products) will be on the subject of a Netflix television  programme titled Stranger Things with which I am wholly unfamiliar but which is described by Wikipedia as an “American series … the first season was released on Netflix on July 15 2016” and “the fifth and final season is being released in three parts in November and December 2025”. Wikipedia informs us that the programme combines “elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, fantasy and coming of age drama”. Presumably this is one of those cult productions which few know about but those who do are prepared to spend a lot of money on items related to it. 

Rating:- 0.

🇬🇧 Postal service of the British Antarctic Territory -

I reproduce below news of a new postbox presented to the territory by HM King Charles III as described by the BBC News internet page -

New issues -

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

10 December 2025 - Joint issue with the Russian postal service, 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries- explorers Ahmed bin Majid and Alana’s Nikitin  - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 9 and 1 miniature sheet containing a single circular stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

16 December 2025 - 250th birth anniversary of Jane Austen, author of novels - 1 ‘Collector sheet’ containing 10 identical‘Union Flag’ stamps with attached labels and sold at a premium (£18.20). Rating:- *.

2836. 🇳🇿 New Zealand’s Chinese New Year Stamps.

 New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

26 January 2026 - Chinese new year, Year of the Horse - stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps and 1 ‘gold’ miniature sheet in a perspex disple stand sold for the equivalent of £81.59p. Designed by YMC Design, Wellington and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *.

🇫🇯 Fiji Post -

2025 - Surcharges- various values surcharged on previously issued $1 ‘Birds’ definitive stamp. Rating:- *****.

a. Surcharge XX - 16 stamps. 

b. surcharge XXX - 15 stamps -