New issues -
🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -
28 May 2023 - 50th anniversary of the award of the Joliot-Curie Peace medal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.
🇮🇳 India Post -
29 May 2023 - Inauguration of the new Indian Parliament building - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.
New issue programmes - 2023
🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea -
July 2023 - Traditional canoe splashboards
July 2023 - Traditional war shields
July 2023 - Lau Lau fruit trees in Papua New Guinea
July 2023 - Papua New Guide-made products - chocolate
July 2023 - Birds of the Forest floor
July 2023 - Kundu and garamuts
August 2023 - Traditional grass skirts
August 2023 - Papua New Guinea faces - Highlands and Momase
August 2023 - Meri Blouse
Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal services are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2023 -
Anguilla
Belize
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Dominica
eSwatini
Gabon
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Maldives
Montserrat
Nauru
Nevis
Nigeria
Niue
Penrhyn Cook Islands
Rwanda
St Helena
St Kitts
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Tokelau
Trinidad And Tobago
Turks And Caicos Islands
Uganda
United Republic Of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
By the end of May therefore, 35 out of 88 (39.8%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities had not yet issued, or were not known to have issued, or were not known to have had issued on their behalf, any new legitimate postage stamps during 2023. This compares with 47.1% at the end of May 2022.
Some of the countries on the list haven't issued stamps in years. I wonder if they ever come back to philatelic life again...
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