2555. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail To Release Yet Another Issue Depicting Vintage BBC Television Comedy.

New Issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 September 2024 - Porridge, vintage BBC Television comedy programme set in a prison (‘porridge’ is slang for serving a term of imprisonment for criminal activities) - 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs, total cost £13.40p) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10:stamps with attached labels (sold for £17.30). Designed by Steers McGiven Eves and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

Meanwhile, anyone interested in a philatelic bowl of real porridge may recall this stamp from An Post which was issued on 16 July 2015 as part of a set of 4 with an accompanying miniature sheet. The set was titled - “Ireland - the Food island”  -

2556. 🇦🇬🇩🇲🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨 Caribbean ECCB Omnibus Stamps

New issues -

🇦🇬🇩🇲🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨 - Joint issue by the postal services of Antigua And Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent And The Grenadines -

19 July 2024 - 40th anniversary of the Eastern Caribbean Community Bank (described in previous Blogs including Blog 2549) 2 miniature sheets for each postal service. These issues are now illustrated below -

🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda -

🇩🇲 Dominica -

🇬🇩 Grenada - 

🇰🇳 St Kitts And Nevis -

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia -

🇻🇨 Sr Vincent And The Grenadines -

🇬🇩 Grenada Postal Corporation -

1 August 2024 - Joint issue with the postal service of the Republic of Korea, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Grenada and Korea - 2 stamps. Issue previously described in Blog 2541 but better quality illustrations are now provided -

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps this year up until the end of August -

Aitutaki Cook Islands 

Anguilla 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cook Islands including Rarotonga

Gabon 

Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique 

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Niue

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad And Tobago 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, by the end of August, 37 of the 89 (41.6%) Commonwealth philatelic entities (Mozambique has been added to the list as it once more has a functioning postal service) are not known to have issued or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2024. This compares with the figure of 43 (48.9%) at the end of July 2024 and the figure of 33 out of 88 (37.5) at the end of August 2023.

2557. 🇳🇿 Ross Dependency Extremophiles Issue.

 

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

Issues inscribed Ross Dependency -

4 September 2024 - Mount Erebus ‘Extremophiles’ - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Helcia Berryman of Mopsy Creative and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

24 August 2024 - Commemoration of Sridhara Vincent Subasinghe (philanthropist and social worker) - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Department of Government Printing Sri Lanka. Rating:- **.

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

6 March 2024 - ITB Berlin 24 Travel Trade Show, important tourist sites of Oman - 7 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the others a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:-****.

2554. 🇲🇿 Mozambique Appoints New Postal Operator.

 

🇲🇿 Correio Expresso de Moçambique (postal service of Mozambique) -

24 May 2024 - It was announced that the government of Mozambique had appointed Correio Expresso de Moçambique (CORRE) as the new universal postal service provider in Mozambique, three years after the Mozambique government had terminated the former national postal service, Correios de Moçambique. 

  The shareholders of the new postal service are Correios de Portugal and Empresa Nacional de Correios de Moçambique and CORRE stated that,”The company offers a wide range of services, including the collection, processing, transport and distribution of urgent and express documents and goods, both nationally and internationally, as well as courier, transport and logistics services”.

  The statement claimed that the appointment represents a significant step in the liberalisation and and modernisation of the postal service in Mozambique, “promoting greater efficiency and quality in the services provided to our citizens”. 

  There is no report of the new service, which seems to be largely centred on the delivery of parcels and express postal services, has so far issued, or intends to issue in the future, any postage stamps but collectors will need to keep their eyes open for any interesting items coming out of this new postal service officially recognised as the state postal service in Mozambique.

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

20 August 2024 - Kandy Esala Perahera - 1 long stamp (2015 mm x 50mm) and I miniature sheet containing the same stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇲 Jamaica Post -

 25 July 2024 - Bicentenary of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Previously described in Blog 2548 but better quality illustration now shown below -

🇧🇲 Bermuda postal service -

26 June 2024 - Commemoration of Mary Prince, former slave - 4 stamps. Previously described in Blog 2521 but better quality illustrations now shown below - 

2553. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates Relations With Egypt.

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

21 August 2024 - 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Egypt, Joint issue - 1 stamp. Design “supplied by the customer” and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

The Egyptian part of the joint issue was released on 14 August 2024 and took the form of a single stamp -

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) -

This USA-based agency has now featured on its internet site the joint issues by 6 Commonwealth Caribbean states to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Eastern Caribbean Community Bank (ECCB). No illustrations are yet available but each postal service has released 2 miniature sheets, one sheet containing 2 different stamps and the other, presumably, a single stamp.

The stamps of all 6 territories are stated to have been issued on 19 July 2024. 

The participating postal services are those of -

🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda

🇩🇲 Dominica 

🇬🇩 Grenada

🇰🇳 St Kitts And Nevis

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia and

🇻🇨 St Vincent And The Grenadines,

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamp personalised stamps, usually issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium - 

2024 - 165th Income Tax Day - 1 stamp.