2987. 🇬🇬 Guernsey Post To Issue Fourteen Stamps For Christmas 2026.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Issue inscribed Guernsey -

2 November 2026 - Christmas, local interpretation of the nativity - 7 stamps. Designed by Charlie Buchanan and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ***.

Issue inscribed Alderney

2 November 2026 - Christmas angels - 7 self-adhesive stamps.. Designed by Chloe Sarre and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ***.

18 November2026 - 110th anniversary of the battle of the Somme, Guernsey’s contribution - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

And so, to a more  recent conflict -

🇮🇱 Israel Post -

This edition of Commonwealth Stamps Opinion is posted on 7 October 2026 which marks the third anniversary of the massacre in Israel of at least 1195 people - including 828 civilians and 38 children - and the taking of a large number of hostages by terrorist Palestinian groups including Hamas and other Islamist organisations. This act of terrorism in turn led to Israeli forces attacking the Hamas militants with the result that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza died during the ensuing war. Although there has been no stamp issue this year referring to the terrorist assault on innocent Israeli civilians, Israel Post did issue a single stamp one year ago to remember the victims of the terrorist attack of 7 October 2023 and to remind the world of the act of infamy which had the most severe consequences for the perpetrators and innocents alike.

2986. 🇦🇺 Australia Commemorates Pooh Centenary With ‘My Stamps’.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

6 October 2026 - Centenary of the publication of AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh children’s book, a landmark English language children’s piece of literature - .Disney obtained a licensing deal from Milne’s widow in 1961 and US$350 million for full worldwide rights in 2001. My Stamps - 12 self-adhesive stamps issued in packs containing 2 panes of 6 plus 1 miniature sheet’ containing 4 identical gummed greetings stamps and a sheetlet of 4 of the same stamp with attached labels. Sold at a premium for Au$39.00. Oddly, considering this is an Australian stamp issue, the character Kanga is not featured on any of the 12 stamps though the baby Roo is one of the depicted characters. Rating:- 0.

🇮🇳 India Post -

1 October 2026 - Centenary of the Union Public Service Commission - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***

🇹🇷 Postal service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -

10 October 2026 - Butterflies of Cyprus - 2 stamps. Designed by GK Sônmezer and lithographed by Devlet Basimani. Rating:- *****.

2985. 🇸🇭 More Tristan Da Cunha Dogs.

 

New issues -

🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha postal service  -

2 November 2026 - Tristan Da Cunha dogs (2nd issue) - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

28 September 2026 - Truth and Reconciliation - 4 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets with 2 of each stamp. Designed by Blair Thompson of Believe In from illustrations by Emily Kewageshig Jason Sikoak  and Christi Belcourt and lithographed by Lowe Martin Rating:- **.

2984. 🇸🇬 First Lenticular Stamps From Singapore.

 

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

8 September 2026 - International Literacy Day - 2 stamps issued in a se-tenant pair in sheetlets of 8. Lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Karachi. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post  -

9 October 2026 - ‘Singapore Then & Now’, World Post Day - 2 miniature sheets sold in a folder, each containing a single stamp, both are produced as lenticular stamps.  Rating:- ***.

8 October 2026 - World Post Day, My Stamp - 1 sheetlet of 7 My Stamp stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

25 September 2026 - Five Nation Stamp Exhibition held in Kangaroo, Perlis - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026 until the end of September -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

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 Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

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 September, 39 (44.3%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or have not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026. This compares with a figure of 48.9% at the end of August 2026 and 42% at the end of September 2025.