2332. 🇸🇱🇦🇺🇹🇬🇬🇧🇯🇪 The Commonwealth‘s Greediest Stamp Issuing Postal Administrations Of 2022.

 

🇸🇱🇦🇺🇹🇬🇬🇧🇯🇪 The Commonwealth’s Greediest Stamp Issuing Postal Administrations of 2022.

See Blog 2063. 

As usual this list is put together by using the total number of stamps* known to have been issued by each separate Commonwealth postal administration or their agents during the course of 2022. In some ways it might be more meaningful to add up the the total face value of every stamp but this is far too difficult for me to do in terms of time available to do the necessary research so I have again chosen the easier option and I believe the list gives some impression of what is happening on the Commonwealth stamps scene and which postal administrations appear to being the most abusive in terms of excessive stamp issuing.

* Here ‘stamps’ includes all postally valid stamps, miniature sheets, booklets, machine-dispensed stamps, ‘Collectors sheets’ and stamps for personalisation sold through post offices or their philatelic bureaux but not most deliberately created varieties such as imperforate versions. 

As collectors know, some postal administrations - for example, Australia, Guernsey, Cook Islands and Tonga, United Kingdom - produce, or have produced on their behalf, stamps with the names of part of their territory printed on them even though those part territories do not have separate postal administrations. In this survey the part territories are included in the overall total of issues released by the main postal service.

 Position.  Postal service.                 Annual total.       Position in 2021.

1.             Salpost (Sierra Leone)      612.                       -    (0)

2.             Australia Post.                   575.                       1   (662)

3.             Royal Mail                         241                        2   (190)

4.             La Poste du Togo               234.                        -   (Not in Commonwealth)

5.              Jersey Post.                      145.                        4.   (142)

6.              Isle Of Man Post Office.  134.                        5.   (110)

7.              Guernsey Post (including Alderney). 133.     7.     (97)

8=.           India Post                         86.                           -

8=.           New Zealand Post.           86.                           9.     (83)

10=          Cook Islands inc. Aitutaki & Penrhyn) 72.   -

10=          Tonga Post inc. Niuafo’ou 72.                       -

12.            Sri Lanka Post.                  65.                       13.     (51)

13.            Singapore Post.                 61.                        6.       (98)

14=.         Antigua & Barbuda (IGPC)  55.                     -

14=.          Nevis (IGPC).                   55.           

The Commonwealth’s least greedy postal administrations during 2022 were -

1=.             Anguilla postal service (0)

1=.             Belize postal service (0)           

1=.             British Indian Ocean Territory postal service (0)

1=.             British Virgin Islands postal service (0)

1=.             Cam Post (Cameroon) (0)

1=.             Dominica postal service (0)

1=.             eSwatini Post and Telecommunications (0)

1=.             Gabon La Poste (0)

1=.             Lesotho postal service (0)

1=.             Montserrat postal service (0)

1=.             Niue postal service (0)

1=.             Bounty Post (Pitcairn Islands) (0)

1=.              iPosita (Rwanda) (0)

1=.              St Kitts postal service (0)

1=.              Saint Lucia postal service (0)

1=.              Solomon Islands Postal Corporation (0)

1=.              Tokelau postal service  (0)

1=.              Vanuatu Post (0)

19=.             Postal Corporation of Kenya (1)

19=.             Maldives Post (1)

19=.             Naoero Post (Nauru) (1)

19=.             Nigeria postal service (1)

19=.             Seychelles postal service (1)

19=.             South African Post Office (1)