2833. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Commemorates 54th National Day

 

New issues:-

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of the United Arab Emirates) - 

2 December 2025 - 54th National Day - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamps personalised stamps sold by India Post in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and at a premium.

2025 - “LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) Celebrating 18 years of Partnership”  - 1 stamp.

2025 - 25th anniversary of Transunion CIBIL - 1 stamp.

🇧🇧 Postal service of Barbados -

8 December 2025 - Dove of Peace, part of an omnibus issued mainly by various European postal administrations and the United Nations Postal Agency - 1 stamp.  Designed by Hammerle and Vogel. Embroidered. Rating:- *****. The issue is depicted and offered for sale on the Barbados Stamps website.

2803. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Monopoly.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

16 October 2025 - 90th anniversary of the introduction of Monopoly, a board game invented in the United States -  10 x 1st Class domestic rate stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5) (cost £17) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 different stamps with attached labels costing £18.20. Designed by Hat-trick Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Assuredly the dullest set of 10 stamps commemorating the most inconsequential of anniversaries that Royal Mail has yet managed to come up with. Rating:- 0.

🇰🇾 Postal service of the Cayman Islands -

There will be no postage stamps issued during 2025 by the Cayman Islands postal service according to an article published by Cayman Compass a week ago:-

🇧🇧 Barbados postal service -

1 October 2025 - 70th anniversary of the Barbados Fire Brigade - 5 stamps. Barbados Stamps has recently featured these new stamps on its internet site -

2800. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Commemorates Small States Games.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

9 October 2025 - Games of the small states of Europe, Andorra, Cyprus headed the medal table- 4 stamps. Designed by Lisa Petridou Male & lithographed by Baltic High Security Printing. (Thanks to Anonymous for supplying production details in the comments section). Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

30 September 2025 - 75th anniversary of the President’s Bodyguard - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

1 October 2025 - Centenary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***

1 October  2025 -  Centenary of the Military Nursing Service - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

1 October 2025 - World Children’s Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇧 Barbados Post - 

1 October 2025 - 70th anniversary of the Barbados Fire Service - 5 stamps. Further details awaited. The photograph shows officials at the launch of the stamps with a framed set and first day cover. Stamp illustrations awaited. 

2796. 🇬🇧 New Definitive From Royal Mail.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

30 September 2025 - New tariff £3.40 definitive - 1 stamp. Printed in gravure by Cartor. Self-adhesive. Perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- **. Why are the colours (this is ‘dark green’) used for these stamps so depressing?

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

19 September 2025 - Joint issue with the postal service of Thailand - 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps was also issued in addition to the 2 single stamps described in Blog 2787.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

? September 2025 - Butterflies of Myanmar - 1 miniature sheet containing 11 previously issued stamps reissued combined in a miniature sheet of one of each stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇧🇧 Barbados Post -

29 September 2025 - 70th anniversary of the Barbados Fire Service - 5 stamps. Further details and illustrations awaited.

🇱🇹 Stamperija or associates -

🇹🇬 Products inscribed Togolese Republic -

5 September 2025 - numerous products on various subjects - 

A. Amphibians of India -

B. Endemic species of India - 

C. Owls of India - 

D. Surcharges, World Day of tgeEnvironment -

E. Surcharges, Turtles -

F. Surcharges, Fungi - 

G. Surcharges, Owls - 

H. The African baobab - 

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 - 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

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

Samoa

Solomon Islands 

South Africa

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, on 1 October, 37 out of 88 (42.0%) Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 50.0% at the end ofAugust and 37.1% at the end of September 2025.

First issues of 2025 from Mauritius, Mozambique, New Zealand Ross Dependency, Pitcairn Islands, The Gambia and Guyana.