3011. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Celebrates Christmas.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

8 November 2026 - Christmas - 3 stamps. Printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rated:- *****. 

🇳🇷 Naoero Post -

April 2026 - Japan Expo 2025, the Naoero pavilion at the exposition - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

What’s happening in Commonwealth countries which have stopped issuing stamps?

  The number of Commonwealth postal administrations which issue postage only rarely or not at all seems to increase gradually as the years go by. Take Rwanda and Cameroon for instance. The Rwandan postal service quite remarkably is not known to have issued any postage stamps since 2010 and new issues from from Cam Post are extremely infrequent - there had been no new issues from Cameroon since 2021 until a single stamp was released earlier this year. So, given that both countries still have operating postal services, which stamps are actually being used on any mail posted in those countries?

  Some clues may be gleaned from a couple of 2026 covers which appear to be non-philatelic and which have recently been offered for sale on internet auction sites. Firstly, a cover from Rwanda showing usage of two stamps from the 2010 issues and secondly, a cover from Cameroon in which stamps dating back decades have been applied to the envelopes suggesting that Cameroon’s post offices have a large number of old issues from the philatelic boon years which are still in stock and available to use up.

  Why waste money producing new stamps when you have got large numbers to hand to still make use of?

3011. 🇧🇼 Botswana Depicts The Honey Badger On February New Issue.

 

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

24 February 2026 - The Honey badger or ratel - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Omphile Sephako and lithographed. The illustrations are taken from an internet auction site sale by 15dsouth. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -20 October 2026 - Commemoration of ‘The Courageous Loser’, Ranathunga Karunandanda (Olympic athlete) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (exploitative producer and purveyor of paraphilatelic products under contract from several African postal administrations or governments). Usually ‘issued’ in perforated or imperforate formats. All products are rated ‘0’. Caveat emptor.

Products inscribed Togolese Republic -

2026 (unspecified date) - 65th anniversary of the World Wide Fund For Nature - various previously released products said to be overprinted and surcharged - 8 sheetlets/miniature sheets as illustrated below - 

Along with the above products Stamperija also released an additional 26 miniature sheets (sold perforated and imperforate totalling 52 sheets) on the following subjects - Snakes, Frogs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Prehistoric water animals, Owls, Water birds, Hummingbirds, Parrots, Butterflies, Bees, Beetles and Birdpex 2026 Exhibition - pratincoles.

3010. 🇫🇰🇬🇸 New Issues From The South Atlantic.

 

New issues -

🇫🇰 Postal service of the Falkland Islands - 

5 December 2026 - Sights, third issue, Camp - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****.

8 December 2026 - 50th anniversary of the award of the Freedom of Stanley to the Royal Marines - 2 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇸 Postal service of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -

25 November 2026 -Glaciers part 1 - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

18 November2026 - Gentoo penguins - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

Production of all of the above issues was coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle of Man Stamps and Coins for information about these issues.

3009. 🇨🇦 Canada Remembrance Issue Highlights Chinese Canadians.

 

New issues:-

🇨🇦 Canada Post - 

4 November 2026 - Remembrance Day, Chinese Canadians in Force 136 - 1 self-adhesive stamps produced in booklets of six. Designed by Clear Space and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

6 November 2026 - Stamp Week, Beaded embroidery of Malaysia - 4 stamps issued as 2 se-tenant pairs in sheets of 20 and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇴 Jordan Post Company - 

15 September 2026 - Tge Ahl Al-Kahf (People of the cave) archaeological/religious site - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating;- ****.