New issues.
🇵🇰 Pakistan Post Office -
July 2023 - 10th anniversary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, ‘From Vision to Reality’ - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -
22 August 2023 - Cultural landmarks in Hong Kong - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 sets of 6 stamps. Designed by Peter Ng Seung-ho and lithographed. Rating:- **.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
7 July 2023 - 10th International Island Games hosted by Guernsey, Post and Go - The stamps reported in Blog 2340 were dispensed by machines GG02 and GG05 and examples of both are now illustrated below:-
2023 - 25th anniversary of Panipat refinery and Petrochemical complex - 1 stamp.
2023 - Centenary of Sri Kaliswari group of industries - 1 stamp.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
2023 - Horizon labels. The leading Blog on British stamps, Norvic Philatelic Blog, edited by Ian Billings, has recently drawn attention to a change in the design of the counter printed Horizon labels to substitute the cameo of King Charles III to replace the silhouette of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. These are fascinating items as they may be seen as postage stamps, if one so wishes, as they are receipts indicating the prepayment of postage which are adhesive and fulfill the role by being stuck to items of mail prior to them being sent through the post. I suspect that far more of them are used on mail in Britain now than any conventional postage stamps and in particular, the vast array of ‘commemorative’ stamps. For anyone interested in the evolution of the carriage of mail, they are vital parts of the story and a section should be set aside for them, I believe, in a modern British stamp collection.
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