2658. 🇮🇳 India Commemorates Anniversary Of Farmers’ Uprising.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇳 India Post - 

28 January 2025 - 131st anniversary of the Patharughat Farmers uprising - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇹 Malta Post -

12 February 2025 - Chinese new year, Year of the Snake - 2 stamps. Further details and illustrations awaited.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This year 88 philatelic entities are included in this list -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Ascension Island

Australia 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

Australia Christmas Island 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Australia Norfolk Island 

Bahamas 

Bangladesh 

Barbados 

Belize 

Bermuda 

Botswana 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon 

Canada 

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Cyprus 

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 

Dominica

Falkland Islands 

Fiji

Gabon

Ghana

Gibraltar 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guernsey 

Guernsey Alderney

Guyana 

India 

Isle Of Man

Jamaica 

Jersey

Kenya

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Malaysia 

Maldives 

Malta

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Namibia 

Nauru

Nevis

New Zealand 

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Nigeria

Niue

Pakistan 

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Helena 

St Kitts/St Kitts and Nevis

St Vincent and The Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Sierra Leone 

Singapore 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 

Sri Lanka

The Gambia 

Togo

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tristan Da Cunha 

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

The following are known to have issued stamps during January 2025 -

Australia 

Australia Christmas Island 

Bermuda

Canada

Fiji

Guernsey

Guernsey Alderney

India

Isle Of Man

Jersey

Malaysia 

New Zealand 

Pakistan 

Singapore

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 

Therefore, at the end of January, 72 (81.8%) Commonwealth philatelic entities appear not to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 compared with 84.1% at the end of January 2024. Not surprisingly, the greedy diehards such as Great Britain (Royal Mail), Australia, (Australia Post), Isle Of Man, the Channel Islands (Jersey Post and Guernsey Post) and New Zealand (New Zealand Post) have got off to a brisk start. We await developments.

  At the end of January 2025 the list of philatelic entities which had not issued any known postage stamps during 2024 remained unchanged with 28 territories continuing to be on the list (see Blog 2639).