2671. 🇿🇼 2024 Zimbabwe Issue Depicts Wire Toys.

 

New Issues -

🇿🇼 Zim Post (postal service of Zimbabwe) -

30 September 2024 - Wire toys - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

27 February 2025 - Motorcycles - 4 stamps printed in sheets of 8 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

27 February 2025 - Refugee stamp - 1 stamps printed in. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

Postal rates -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

2551. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Post Celebrates Olympic Gold Medallist.

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

14 August 2024 - 78th National Day (77th anniversary of Independence), Commemoration of Arshad Nadeem’s winning of the gold medal in the Men’s Javelin competition at the Paris Olympic Games 2024 - 1 stamp. Design “supplied by the customer” (whoever that may be) and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

16 September 2024 - ‘Small island of wonder’ - 6 stamps. Designed by Colleen Corlett and lithographed. Rating:- *.

30 September 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union. Printed in lithography. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post - 

31 July 2024 - Butterflies of Myanmar - 1 stamp. Designed by Cho San Lin and Ahmonoo and lithographed by Security Printing Works (Myanmar) and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

2287. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Commemorates Its New King.

New issues.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

3 May 2023 - Succession and Coronation of Charles III, King of New Zealand - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Hannah Fortune and lithographed by Brebner Print Napier and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

9 May 2023 - EUROPA, ‘Peace - The highest value of humanity’ - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps.. Designed by Runa Egilsdottir and Linda Bos and Ron Mills. Lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

2023 - Centenary of the Manx Grand Prix - further details awaited.

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🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Repubic of Ireland) -

2023 - Coil stamps - 2 self-adhesive stamps using designs of previously issued stamps. Rating:- ****.

1714. 🇯🇪 Motor Bikes In Jersey.

🇯🇪 It’s hard not to be depressed by how the postal services of the British offshore islands plus Gibraltar continue to release clearly excessive numbers of stamp issues and stamps and other extra paraphernalia such as miniature sheets, Collectors sheets, Prestige booklets, Post and Go products and so on and so on.

  When these postal services release issues which mark locally relevant anniversaries and events I’m very happy to incorporate them in my collection but feel very annoyed when the issues include just about every way of extracting money from me. So the latest issue from Jersey Post does not delight me. An issue - a collection or whatever term the organisation wishes to use - is to be released on 8 September 2020 to commemorate the Centenary of the Jersey Motor Cycle and Light Car Club and the issue is made up of 8 stamps (price £9.61p), 2 miniature sheets (total cost £12.61p) and 1 Prestige booklet (price £19.22p), total cost £41.44p. An interesting set in subject though the designs are nothing more than photographs with inscriptions added rather like many present-day Royal Mail issues. 

  

    Also now on Jersey Post’s stamp collecting internet site is a Collectors sheet of 20 UK Letter rate stamps with attached labels which commemorates the Centenary of the Bouley Bay Hill Climb, another automobile-related subject. The price is £17 and the internet site seems to suggest that the date of issue was 8 May 2020. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇧 The latest addition to the 2020 reprints of the eternal Royal Mail Machin Head definitives is the 1st Class rate stamp from booklets of 12 with the code M20L MTIL.The 2nd Class has already been released. See also Blogs 1701, 1699 and 1703.