🇯🇪 Jersey Post -
4 January 2024 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Wang Huming and lithographed. Rating:- 0.
8 January 2024 - EUROPA, ‘Underwater fauna and Flora’ - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed from photography by Nicola Miskin and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
14 February 2024 - Post and Go stamps, the Arms of Guernsey - previously reported in Blog but all 6 stamps now illustrated.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -
5 January 2024 - Lunar new year, Year of the Dragon - see Blog 2387
15 February 2024 - Anti-corruption in Hong Kong - see Blog 2387
14 March 2024 - Characters in Jin Yong’s novels II - 6 stamps, 3 single-stamp miniature sheets and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing two of each stamp. Lithographed with additional hot foil stamping and 3D embossing on $20 miniature sheet by Cartor. Rating:- ***.
£4.85 for a Jersey stamp is a small fortune.
ReplyDelete£21.04 for the set plus miniature sheet.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting worse every year.
Imagine an average issue in 2030. £30+?
The Jersey Sea Life set is £17.91 - still incredibly expensive.
ReplyDeleteThough to be fair to Jersey Post, the values on the Sea Life stamps do reflect the new postal rates that start on 8 January 2024.
60p is local letter rate (up to 100g) (unchanged)
98p is UK rate (up to 100g) (unchanged)
£1.65 is a large letter (up to 100g) to the UK (unchanged)
£2.15 is the new European letter rate (up to 100g) (up 30p)
£2.95 is the new Rest of World rate (up to 100g) (up 40p)
£3.75 is a large letter to Europe (up to 100g) (up 50p)
£4.85 is a large letter to Rest of World (up to 100g) (up 65p)
Perhaps they didn't need to include stamps for all the rates that weren't increasing - that would've reduced the overall cost.
The Guernsey pictorial Post and Go stamps, especially those depicting local landmarks are attractive. If only Royal Mail had adapted some of their stamp issues for P&G/SSK, like Ireland, France, Spain etc. (Ian/Norvic)
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