2397. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Canada Commemorates World War 2 Heroine; Postal Museum Says Goodbye To Post And Go.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

7 November 2023 - Commemoration of Mona Parsons, Canadian Second World War heroine - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 10 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 5 identical stamps. Designed by Larry Burke and Anna Stredulinksky of Burke and Burke.Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

8 November 2023 - Remembrance - previously issued ‘Poppy’ Post and Go stamps dispensed from kiosks at the National Postal Museum with additional inscriptions. A001 - ‘The Postal Museum/Lest we Forget ‘23’; A013 - ‘Mail Rail/Lest we Forget ‘23’. 

1 - 31 December 2023 - A001 reel 1 to dispense ‘Winter greenery’ 1st Class stamps, A001 reel 3 to dispense 2nd Class Winter Greenery stamps, A013 to dispense Winter Greenery stamps (only until 27 December 2023) and A001 reel 5 to dispense Mail coach stamps.

27 - 31 December  2023 - A001 reel 1 to dispense ‘Anniversary Machins’ with inscription’End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum, A001 reel 6 to dispense ‘Union Flag’ Post & Go stamps with inscription ‘End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum’ and A013 reel 3 to dispense 1st Class Machins with inscription’End of Post & Go at/The Postal Museum’.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) (U.S.A.-based producer and purveyor of philatelic items under contract from various postal administrations) - 

Illustrations of various previously announced issues have now been published - 

See Blog 2359 - 

🇬🇩 Grenada -

10 July 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III, King of Grenada - 2 miniature sheets.

18 November 2023 - Elvis Presley (American entertainers) - 2 miniature sheets - 

🇬🇾 Guyana - 

26 April 2023 - The Hyacinth macaw - 2 miniature sheets -

🇹🇻 Tuvalu -

12 June 2023 - 2 issues - the Golden plover and the Ruddy turnstone - 2 miniature sheets for each issue - 

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (Postal service of the United Arab Emirates) -

26 October 2023 - Commemoration of the Mohammed bin Rashid Library - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 2 stamps and the other a single stamp item. Rating:- ****.

2 November 2023 - 25th anniversary of Sharjah University - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp and an additional AED5 miniature sheet as part of the overall item (!). Rating:- ***.