2956. 🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia Invites You To Visit Johor.

 

New issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

8 August 2026 - ‘Visit Johor 2026’, Tourism promotional campaign - 2 stamps in a se-tenant pair. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

?August 2026 - My Stamp, personalised stamp, 80th anniversary of JNTUS College of Engineering in Ananthapuramu - 1 stamp with attached label.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (Lithuania-based exploitative producer and purveyor of paraphilatelic products under contract to several African governments/postal administrations)

Products inscribed Togolese Republic -

Stated date of issue “2026” - various sets including commemorations of various anniversaries of the British royal family -

Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II - 2 miniature sheets -

105th anniversary of the birth of The late Duke of Edinburgh - 1 sheetlet containing 6 different stamps and 2 labels -

65th anniversary of the birth of the late Diana Princess of Wales - 2 miniature sheet# -

45th anniversary of the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) and Lady Diana Spencer - 1 sheetlet containing 6 different stamps and 2 labels -

Other anniversaries featured on these products include the 115th anniversary of Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States of America -

the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces - 

and commemorations of the Artemis II space rocket, 65th anniversary of the speech by the late President Kennedy on setting the target of landing a man on the moon, 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle damage, 20th anniversary of the maiden flight of Falcon 1, 65th anniversary of the flight of Freedom 7, 205th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte (former tyrant of France), 50th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong (former tyrant of China), Birth centenary of Marilyn Monroe (American film star and mistress of US President John Kennedy), 70th anniversary of the wedding of Prince Ranier of Monaco and Grace Kelly (American film actress), 125th birth anniversary of Marlene Dietrich (German singer and film star), 80th anniversary of the birth of Freddie Mercury’s (British popular musician) and 85th birthday anniversary of Bob Dylan (American popular musician).

Naturally, all the above products are rated 0.

2955. 🇳🇷 First Stamp Inscribed Naoero.

 

New issues.

🇳🇷 Naoero Post -

15 July 2026 - 21st anniversary of the nationalisation of the phosphate industry and the new company logo of RONPHOS - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications -

2 August 2026 - ‘Year of Isa Al Kabeer’, commemoration of Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al-Khalifa (ruled 1869 - 1923) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

3 August 2026 - Birth centenary of Satish Gujral, artist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

7August 2026 - SEPAC, iconic landmarks - 2 stamps. Designed from photographs by Mariah Grech and Daniel Cilia and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

2954. 🇻🇺 Delayed News From Vanuatu.

 

New Issues -

🇻🇺 Vanuatu Post -

15 March 2017 - 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and Vanuatu - in addition to the sheetlet of 8 stamps) reported in Blog 2078 it appears that a miniature sheet of the 2 stamps was also issued. Rating:- *****.

25 February 2022 - 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Vanuatu. Lithographed. It is possible that a miniature sheet containing the single stamp was also issued as there is a photograph taken at the launch of the issue naturally giving prominence to the officials, politicians and officials, showing a very unclear picture of what looks like a miniature sheet containing the aversion of the issued stamp. Rating:- *****.

These items are featured on the internet auction site of vmpetrol.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇬🇬 🇬🇬 Issues inscribed Guernsey & issues inscribed Alderney -

1 September 2026 - ‘Man posted from Guernsey to Alderney’ - 4 stamps (2 se-tenant pairs). Designed by Keith Robinson and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇬🇨🇶 Issues inscribed Guernsey and issues inscribed Sark -

1  September 2026 - ‘Man posted from Guernsey to Sark - 4 stamps in 2 se-tenant pairs. Designed by Keith Robinson and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- 0.

Total cost of above items - £16!

2953. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Royal Mail Stamps Featuring Glasgow.

 

New issues -

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

30 July 2026 - ‘Biodiversity’ part 2 - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Abdelkrim Asrar and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- *.

Glasgow on stamps -

Back in 2022 when Birmingham hosted the Commonwealth Games I included in one of the blogs, a survey of all the Royal Mail stamps featuring that city and it seems therefore only fair that I do the same now that Glasgow is once more hosting the Games. In truth there are not really too many stamps to mention.

  A set of four stamps was issued on 6 March 1990 as part of the annual EUROPA omnibus series. Two stamps from the set commemorated Glasgow’s year of being the European City of Culture. Two buildings were featured - the Glasgow School of Art and the Templeton Carpet Factory. The glorious Mackintosh building in the School of Art was subsequently badly damaged by fire in and then destroyed by another fire in June 2018.

  The 14th World Orchid Conference was hosted in Glasgow in April 1993 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in the city and a set of 5 stamps was issued on 16 March 1993 to commemorate the event although the stamps featured only orchids and made no reference to Glasgow on them.

The Glasgow Corporation Tramways Service got a mention on the cover of a £1.30 definitive stamp booklet issued as part of a series on British trams and released on 15 January 1985.

  A Glasgow tram was also featured on one of the 4 stamps issued on 10 May 1988 on the subject of transport and communications which was the theme of the that year’s EUROPA issue.

  The Armadillo Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow was depicted on one of the ten stamps issued in 2017 which depicted modern ‘landmark’ buildings.

  The annual conferences of the political party, the Scottish National Party, were commemorated by the release of Post and Go stamps both in 2016 and 2017 with 2nd and 1st type colours being

  Finally we have the set of 6 stamps issued on 7 July 2014 to commemorate the city’s first hosting of the Commonwealth Games wbich concentrated on depicting some of the sports rather than Glasgow itself -

Commonwealth Countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2016 until the end of July - 

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Australia Norfolk Island 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Barbados 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

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 Helena

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 July, 46 out of 88 (52.3%) Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026. This compares with 55.7% at the end of June 2026 and 54% at the end of July 2025.

2955. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man - No Respite From Unending Flood Of New Issues.

 

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

10 August 2026 - Trinacria (second issue) - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- 0. Colourful but excessive given how many other stamps the IOM Post Office has already issued this year.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

?July 2026 -750th anniversary of the birth of Saint Dnyaneshwar, poet, My stamp personalised stamp - 1 stamp with attached label issued in sheetlets of 12 and sold by India Post at a premium price.

🇹🇿 Tanzania - Steven Zirinsky reports surcharges/overprints from Zanzibar and Pemba.

I have in this Blog, over recent years, reported from time to time the appearance of various surcharges from the postal service of modern-day Tanzania. Of course I have no expertise in the modern issues of that country and no local access to them and I only take an interest in them as part of my Commonwealth stamps collection. I was therefore very interested in and even startled when I read the new Newsletter by Steven Zirinsky, the expert on modern surcharges. Fascinatingly he states,  “Modern Tanzania (post-1980s) has: …. Local post office overprints in Zanzibar and Pemba ….”. I searched the site of Mr Zirinsky’s internet shop but could find no examples that I could recognise but  I look forward to discovering more about these items. As I say, these items sound fascinating as well as any other previously unreported general surcharge issues from Tanzania.