2831. 🇦🇺 Australia Post’s Excess Continues In 2026.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

🇨🇽 Issues inscribed ‘Christmas Island’ -

6 January 2026 - Chinese new year - 3 gummed stamps (Au$8.60), 3 self-adhesive stamps from ‘sheetlets’ of 5 x $3.50 costing $17.50, 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps costing $8.60, 1 ‘Zodiac sheet’ containing within it 12 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps and costing $17.30, 1 ‘Calendar sheet’ containing 13 different stamps and costing $17.15. and 1 ‘888’ ‘gold’ miniature sheet containing 6 identical stamps and sold for $120. Designed by Chrissy Lau and Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 15 x 14. Rating:- *.

Issues inscribed ‘Australia’ -

20 January 2026 - ‘My Little Pony stamp pack’, personalised My Stamps - 1 pane containing 9 different stamps costing $19. Rating:-0.

13 January 2026 - Regional heritage - 3 gummed stamps costing $5.10, 3 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 20 stamps costing $34 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Designed by Jason Watts and lithographed by Ive Group and perforated 15 x 14. Rating:- 0.

27 January 2026 - Endangered birds - 3 gummed stamps costing $5.10, 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 costing $17 and 1 ‘Special pack’containing a miniature sheet which has all three stamps plus a fourth stamp which is not available from any other source and sold for $12. Designed by Jo Muré and Frances McMahon and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 15. Rating:- 0.

10 February 2026 - Creatures of the Paleozoic - 4 gummed stamps ($6.80)  and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps (6.80). Designed by Jason Watts and Keith Downes and lithographed by Southern Impact and perforated 14 x 15. Rating:- 0.

24 February 2026 - Eremophilas (desert plants) - 2 gummed stamps (costing $3.40 and 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 20 (costing $34). Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 15 x 14. Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth Countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025.

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas 

Belize

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn

Dominica

Gabon

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho 

Montserrat 

Nauru 

Nevis

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia

South Africa

Solomon Islands 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos 

Tuvalu 

Uganda

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, up until the end of November, 35 out of 89 (39.3%) Commonwealth philatelic entities are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 37 out of 88 (42%) at the end of October. Note BIOT has been restored to the list of entities as it remains a British Overseas Territory for a short time at least. At the end of November 2024, 32.6% of entities had not issued any postage stamps.

2821. 🇯🇪 Two More Jersey Sets For Christmas And Astronomy.

 

.New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

Jersey Post is continuing to do its best to release as many expensive new issues as it can in a short period of time. So, here’s yet two more issues -

11 November 2025 - Christmas, ‘Letters to Santa’ - 8 stamps, total face value £19.30p. Designed from illustrations by Richard Wake & lithographed. Rating:- 0.

18 November 2025 - The Jersey sky at night - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 stamps, total cost £23.50p. Designed from images courtesy of Neil Maher and Gordon Pollock and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- 0.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

🇨🇽 Issues inscribed Christmas Islands -

5 November 2025 - Chinese new year, Year of the Horse - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. This is presented mounted on a coin cover as part of Australia Post’s exhaustingly expensive Impressions series of severely overpriced items and as such is of little interest except that the miniature sheet will probably be part of the upcoming Chinese New Year series due, I presume, in the new year. Rating:- 0.

2811. 🇦🇺 Australia Post’s Final Issues Of 2025.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

28 October 2025 - The King’s Birthday - 2 gummed stamps (illustrated and detailed in Blog 2801), 1 gummed miniature sheet and 1 ‘sheetlet’ containing 5 x $4.35 stamps sold for $21.75. Items not previously depicted are shown below -

3 November 2025 - Christmas. See Blog 2806 for illustrations and details of basic gummed stamps.

‘Secular’ designs - 

3 gummed stamps, 2 booklets/‘sheetlets’ containing self-adhesive stamps (5 x $3 sold for $15 and 10 x 65c sold for $6.50), 1 ‘embellished’ stamp pack containing 20 ‘embellished’ stamps (10 of each 65c value) sold for $14.95, 2 self-adhesive sheetlets of 10 x 65c sold for $6.50 each (each sheetlet features one of the two designs) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Those items not previously depicted are shown below - 

‘Religious’ designs - 2 gummed stamps, 1 gummed miniature sheet containing both stamps, and 2 self-adhesive stamps (the $3 from a sheetlet of 5 sold for $15 and the 65c from a booklet of 10 sold for $6.50). 

8 November 2025 - Brisbane Stamp and Coin Show 2025 - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *.

Stamp packs - various My Stamp personalised items sold by Australia Post at a premium. Rating for all  items - 0.

3 November 2025 - ‘Loony Tunes’ Christmas Pack - 1 pack containing 2 panes each of 20 x 65c all different 65c stamps and sold for $15.

3 November 2025 - ‘Stitch’s Christmas Pack’ - pack containing 2 panes each containing 10 all different stamps sold for $15?

18 December 2025 - ‘Avatar Stamp Pack’ - pack containing 1 panes each of 9 x $1.90 different stamps sold for $19.

  Surprisingly there is no mention of any Christmas Island Christmas stamps in the latest Australia Post stamp bulletin. Perhaps that news is yet to come.

2806. 🇦🇺 Penguins Feature On Australian Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues -

An Post (postal service of the Irish Republic) -

9 October 2025 - The Làmh signing system, - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 8. Designed by UNTHINK and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

3 November 2025 - Christmas, secular and religious designs - 5 gummed, 5 self-adhesive stamps and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps. Secular - 3 stamps, designed by Jo Muré from illustrations by Andrew McKintosh and lithographed by EGO (gummed) or RA Printing or inkjet 1200 dpi by Rapid Labels (self adhesive). Religious - 2 stamps, designed by Jo Muré from the art of Julien O’Brien and lithographed by RA Printing. Perforated 14.5 x 14. Further details and illustrations awaited. Rating:- **.