2696. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail To Commemorate Winnie The Pooh Centenary.

 New Issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

26 August 2026 - National Meelad-Un-Nabi festival, 2026 - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka. Rating:- **.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 October 2026 - Winnie The Pooh - Royal Mail has now made public the news that this will be the subject of the extensive stamp issue to be released on this date which is the exact centenary date of the publication of AA Milne’s book about this character. Although numerous WTP stamps have been issued on this subject before, it is hard to complain about a centenary issue of an important (children’s’) book. Details awaited.

Commonwealth countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026, up until the end of August.

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Australia Norfolk Island 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Jamaica 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nevis 

New Zealand (Ross Dependency)

Niue 

Papua New Guinea

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda 

St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa 

Seychelles 

Tokelau 

Tonga 

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Trinidad and Tobago 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, at the end of August, 43 (48.9%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026.This compares with 52.3% at the end of July 2026 and 50% at the end of August 2025.