2891. 🇳🇦 Namibia First 2026 Issue Revealed.

New issues -

🇳🇦 NamPost (postal service of Namibia) -

15 April 2026 - Lithops of Namibia - 4 stamps. Designed by Helge Denker and lithographed. Rating:- *****. These illustrations are obtained from the internet site of Spectre-of-Stamps.

🇮🇳 India Post -

25 March 2026 - Women’s colleges of Delhi - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Rating:- **.

A worthy subject but painfully dull designs.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

17 April 2026 - Malta tramways - 3 stamps. Designed from images Edgar Vella, John N Scerri and the Malta Railway Foundation and lithographed by MaltaPost. Rating:- ****.

2890. 🇦🇺 Australia New Issues Feature Bluey, Bush Medicine And Dahlias.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

6 May 2026 - Bluey, cartoon character - 1 ‘stamp pack’ containing 12 different My Stamps and sold at a premium price of A$22. Rating:- 0.

5 May 2026 - ‘Bush medicine’ - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Janet Boschen and lithographed by Southern Impact and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

19 May 2026 - Dahlias, grown by Australian cultivars - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Designed by Sharon Rodziewicz and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- *.

21 April 2026 - 30th anniversary of Space Jam - 1 ‘stamp pack’ containing 9 different My Stamps and sold at a premium price of $19? Rating:- 0.

28 April 2026 - Disney Princess stamp pack containing 9 different My Stamps and sold at a premium price of $19. Rating:- 0.

2889. 🇵🇬 Spectre-of-Stamps Reports 2025 Papua New Guinea Issues.

 

New issues -

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

2025 issues - previously unreported, these issues are now featured on the internet site of the dealer, Spectre-of-Stamps - 

2025, no date specified - Fruit trees of Papua New Guinea - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets (one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2025, no date specified - ‘Remote Pies Balus - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and two other single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇩🇪 Deutsche Post (postal service of Germany) -

A special mention here for - 

2 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II - 1 stamp. Rating:- *****.

and let us not overlook -

🇫🇷 La Poste (postal service of France) -

20 October 2025 60th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill- 1 stamp. Rating:-*****.

See Blog 172.

2888. 🇮🇴 New Stamps For The Chagos Islands.

 

New issues -

🇮🇴 British Indian Ocean Territory - 

1 April 2026 - ‘Our home, Chagos’ - 2 stamps, previously issued commemorative stamps with overprints and surcharges applied. The overprints include the addition of ‘CIIIR’ under the cameo of Queen Elizabeth II and the items thus become the first stamps of the reign of King Charles III to be issued for the BIOT. The issue coincides with the recent resettlement of the Chagos Islands by a number of former residents and descendents of residents in the face of resistance from the Starmer government in the United Kingdom which wants to hand over the islands to Mauritius along with over £30 billion to enable it to rent back the United States airbase on Diego Garcia. On 13 March 2026 the Supreme Court of the BIOT ruled that the Chagossians could not be lawfully removed from their settlement on Île du Coin. The resettlers are led by their interim Head of Government, Misley Mandarin.  

Rating:- *****.

2887. 🇯🇪 Jersey New Issue Features Local Art.

 

New issues -

🇦🇪 Emirates Post, postal service of the United Arab Emirates -

4 February 2026 - Sharjah Heritage Days - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

2 April 2026 - ‘Art under the arches’, local art - 8 stamps costing £19.87 and 1 miniature sheet containing all 8 stamps also costing £19.87. Designed by local artists, schools and community groups and lithographed by bpost. Raiting:- *.

2886. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Issues Children’s Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

30 April 2026 - Children’s stamps, Animals in Chinese idioms - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Paul Lam & lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

27 March 2026 - Myanmar coffee - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed by Security Printing Works, Myanmar and designed by Myanmar Post and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

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

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Australia Norfolk Island 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

Bermuda 

Botswana 

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 

Guernsey Sark

Guyana 

Jamaica 

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Mauritius

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Namibia

Nevis 

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Helena 

St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 

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 March, 57 out of 88 Commonwealth philatelic entities (64.8%) have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, during 2026. This compares with 73.9% at the end of February and 76.1% at the end of March 2026.