2829. 🇨🇦 Canada’s Cartoonists.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post - 

20 November 2025 - Canadian cartoonists, second issue, graphic novelists - 6 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklist of 12 (2 panes each containing a complete set). Designed by Subplot Design Inc and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:-**.

🇮🇳 India Post -

November 2025 - My Stamp personalised stamps (usually sold with attached labels in sheetlets of 12 and at a premium) - 

25th anniversary of Samriddhi Bavan - 1 stamp.

November - 

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

21 May 2025 - KESEF Philatelic Exhibition  - 1 stamp. Previously issued stamp reissued with overprint applied. Rating:- ***.

2756. 🇲🇹 Malta To Issue SEPAC Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

29 July 2025 - SEPAC, Architecture - 3 stamps. Designed from photography by Maria Christina Bugeja and Mariah Grech and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14.Rating:- ****.

🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -

27 May 2025 - Centenary of the Namibia Scientific Society - the stamps in this issue (previously featured in Blog 2731) were actually issued as parts of a miniature sheet as illustrated below -

🇮🇳 India Post -

My stamps, personalised stamps. Usually issued in sheetlets of 12 stamps with attached labels and sold at a premium - 

2025 - Tourism in Uttar Pradesh, the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj - 1 stamp.

20 July 2025 - 118th of the Bank of Baroda - 1 stamp.

🇰🇼 Kuwait Post -

7 July 2025 - Inauguration of the Abdullah Al-Salem University on 6 March 2024 - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2697. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Celebrates Independence Day.

 

New issues - 

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

25 March 2025 - Great Independence and National Day - 1 stamp. Designed by Salka Alam Himu and lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur and perforated 12.5. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

March 2025 - My Stamp, personalised stamp sold in sheetlets of 12 at a premium price. 90th anniversary of the Reserve Bank of India - 1 stamp with attached label. 

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

4 April 2025 - Commemoration of Blue Rodeo, a Canadian music band - 1 self-adhesive stamp produced in booklets of 6 (1 pane of 2 stamps and another with 4 stamps). Designed by Jim Ryce using an illustration by Kate Lemay and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

4 April 2025 - 50th anniversary of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2024) - 1 stamp. Designed by Muhammad Pervaiz Rashid and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- **.

2634. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post Commemorates Radio Communications.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

16 December 2024 - Centenary of radio communication in Sri Lanka - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

2024 - My stamp, personalised stamps with attached labels sold by India Post in sheetlets of 12 at a premium price. -

30th anniversary of IndusInd Bank - 1 stamp -

Nada Mantana, ‘Hall of Musical Tones’, Avadhoota Datta Peetham, Sri Ganathapi Sachachidananda Ashram in Mysuru - 1 stamp - 

60th anniversary of Engineers India Limited - 1 stamp - 

125th anniversary of manganese mining by MOIL Limited - 1 stamp - 

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

After a month-long strike of postal workers, Canada Post resumed activity earlier this week after the Canada Industrial Relations Board determined on 17 December that negotiations between the workers and the crown corporation were in a stalemate and therefore ordered the employees to return to work under their existing contracts which have been extended to May 2025 to allow more time for negotiations to take place.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 January 2025 - first issue of the year. Comments in Stamp Boards reveal that the issue will be made up of 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs - 2 x 2nd Class domestic rate, 2 x £1, 2 x 1st Class domestic rate and 2 x Airmail rate with a total cost of £12.60) plus 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different 1st Class stamps costing a total of £6.60p.

This combination of values is similar to that of previous issues commemorating television programme anniversaries, children’s books or entertainment anniversaries and the ilk.

A comment by Henry Gilbert in Blog 2631 has indicated that the next issue will be released on -

18 February 2025 - yet another Music Giants issue commemorating, apparently,AC/DC, another aged popular music group. this time Australian but, apparently, with members of it born in Great Britain. That being the case, there will doubtless be a multitude of tiresome products associated with the issue including the basic set, a miniature sheet, a 4 stamp self-adhesive booklet, a Prestige booklet with an accompanying highly expensive ‘deluxe limited edition’ version, ‘Collectors sheets’, ‘Fan sheets’ etc etc etc.

Australia Post previously commemorated this musical ensemble on 2 occasions - firstly, in 2018 when it released one of its dreadful, exorbitant ‘Stamp packs’ which drew criticism because some of the labels attached to the Greetings stamps which made up the sheet showed American versions of the featured album covers rather than the Australian versions.

A single stamp, of uninspiring design, had been issued previously as part of the 2013 ‘Australian Legends’ set.

2615. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Churchill Issue Revealed.

New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

30 November 2024 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill - 8 stamps and 1 Prestige booklet containing 4 panes including one which includes 4 King Charles III self-adhesive stamps (2 x 50p and 2 x £1) and another a block of 4 x King Charles III Union Flag stamps. Lithographed. Further details awaited. The designs of the stamps are revealed in Buckingham Covers promotional magazine which depicts the stamps as they appear on their various first day covers. Rating:- *****. 

🇮🇳 India Post -

15 November 2024 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Birsa Munda, anti-British rebel and opponent of Christianity. Printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- **.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

15 November 2024 - Trade Union members working for Canada Post began strike action and as a result Canada Post’s philatelic internet site was suspended.

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

4 November 2024 - 16th annual meeting of the International Forum for Sovereign Wealth Funds hosted by Oman - 1 miniature sheet containing 9 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.