2847. 🇬🇧 Latest Royal Mail Products Feature Stranger Things.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

New issues from this organisation, the philatelic products of which should serve as ambassadors of the United Kingdom, plumb new depths with a new issue which has nothing to do with Britain nor commemorates anything significant in British history but seeks blatantly to exploit buyers of these products by featuring an American transiently popular cultural phenomenon. The totality of the products related to this issue is detailed below. They are expensive but have no present nor longterm value.

13 January 2026;- Stranger Things (American television programme which features some British actors but otherwise has no relevance to the United Kingdom) 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5 costing £17), 4 miniature sheets (1 containing 4 different stamps costing £6.80, 1 ‘Collectors sheet containing 10 different stamps with attached labels costing £18.20 and 2 different ‘Fan sheets’ each costing £10), 2 ‘Prestige booklets each containing 5 panes of stamps including 1 pane of King Charles III definitives (2 x 50p and 2 x £1) sold for £28.45 or £49.99 for a limited edition (2000 available). Designed by Interabang from art by Kyle Lambert and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5. 

There are numerous additional products but the total cost of the above amounts to £140.44. Rating:- 0.

By the way, featured on a Facebook page yesterday was another pre-embargo lifting illustration of these stamps -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

6 January 2026 - ‘Wild IOM’ - 10 gummed stamps sold in a sheetlet of 10 different stamps (£12.18), 20 self-adhesive stamps (10 x 93p from one booklet costing £9.30 and10 x £1.08 from a booklet costing £10.80) and 10 x variable rate machine-vended self-adhesive stamps costing £12.18 - total cost of issue £48.46. Designed from photographs by Andy North and lithographed. Rating:- *.