New issues -
🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -
8 October 2026 - Definitives, wild orchids (redrawn) - 2 stamps. Similar to the stamps issued in miniature sheets on 4 December 2018 but now smaller with no watermark nor microtext and issued in ordinary sheets of 100. This information and illustrations are taken from that given in the myfdc blog by sky52200.
🇱🇹🇦🇪 Stamperija/Aurescollections (exploitative producers/purveyors of numerous paraphilatelic products on behalf of the postal services of various African territories) -
🇸🇱 Products inscribed Sierra Leone -
All the following products are stated to have had an “official” first day of issue of 9 October 2026. All are rated:- 0. Caveat emptor.
Wildlife of Africa - 18 ‘stamps’ issued in 2 sheetlets each of 9 stamps (3 of 3 designs) and 1 miniature sheet. These are sold in perforated and imperforate state with the imperforate items usually sold at approximately double the price of the perforated versions.There are also 6 miniature sheets each containing a different single stamp and on offer from Aurescollections for €89.
Not likely to fit all on a first day cover then. I doubt any will ever be used for postage, so are they really stamps?.
ReplyDeleteAurescollections seem to have used some big envelopes to ensure that have expensive fdcs to sell. Are they stamps? Yes, I suppose so since they are sticky bits of paper but the question is whether they are postage stamps? Presumably the contract Stamperija has with these wretched countries’ postal administrations does mean that they are postage stamps because the contract renders them postally valid. Whether or not they are available at post offices for the Sierra Leone letter writer to apply to their envelopes is another question altogether. It is all just so much trash but if people buy it then these cynical & exploitational purveyors of paraphilatelic rubbish will continue to produce it & sell it till there’s no profit to be made from it. The same applies to the exorbitantly excessive products being exuded by Royal Mail & Australia Post et al. Stamp-issuing parasites come in different forms but they’re all there to basically make a financial profit by exploiting philately.
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