New issues -
🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -
26 March 2025 - 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 1 stamp. Designed by Helge Denker. Lithographed. Rating:-***.
🇮🇳 India Post -
28 June 2025 - 25th anniversary of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises, My Stamp personalised stamp - I stamp issued in a sheet of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
2025 - Somewhat depressingly, Guernsey Post is once more announcing that it will be pressing ahead with ‘cyber stamps’ which were originally intended to be released in 2024 but were delayed due to a legal problem. This appears to be the same Golden Guernsey goat product held over from last year and further information will be released on 16 July 2025. We await the details with bated breath.
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
British Antarctic Territory
British Virgin Islands
Cameroon
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands including Rarotonga
Cook Islands Aitutaki
Cook Islands Penrhyn
Dominica
Gabon
Ghana
Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Guyana
Kingdom of eSwatini
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Nauru
Nevis
New Zealand Ross Dependency
Nigeria
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Rwanda
St Kitts or St Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Solomon Islands
South Africa
The Gambia
Tokelau
Tonga
Tonga Niuafo’ou
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Therefore, at the end of June, 47 (53.4%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to not have issued or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps on 2025. This compares with 58.2% at the end of May 2025 and 51.1% at the end of June 2024.
I doubt we'll see new issues for Cook Islands or Tonga. I've sent numerous emails to various addresses trying to contact PCI Stamps. Not a single email sent over the last 12 months has been answered.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we'll see some new issues from IGPC. So far this year they issued only 1 stamp for Grenada.
DeleteI believe IGPC’s stamps are frequently printed in China. Possibly Trump’s tariffs are causing problems for them.
DeleteTrinidad and Tobago should be off the list... ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me.
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