2839. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Stranger Things Issue Makes Internet Appearance.

 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

13 January 2026 - Stranger Things, American television programme (of no significance at all to the United Kingdom) - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps plus other items including a Prestige booklet costing £28.45. These illustrations of presentations packs can be seen on the internet from 2 different sources. Rating:- 0. 

British stamps should celebrate Britain in all its aspects. Royal Mail has sunk to the level of Stamperija. It surprises me that Buckingham Palace approves this rubbish; it seems demeaning to place the King’s cameo on products such as these which have no relevance ro the country over which he reigns. One can only imagine what George V would have had to say about it all.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

10 December 2025 - 75th anniversary of Peshawar University - 1 stamp. Designed by the ‘customer’ and lithographed by Pakistan Seurity Printing Corporation Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2026 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse - 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 2 ‘Heartwarming’ personalised stamps with attached labels issued in sheetlets of16. Designed by Wong Chun-Hong & lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

2538. 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Canada Commemorates Film Director Norman Jewison; Singapore’s 59th National Day.

 

New issues -

24 July 2024 - Commemoration of the late Norman Jewison (1926-2024), film director - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Russell Gibb of Russell Gibbs Design and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

1 August 2024 - 59th National Day celebrations, “Together as one united people”- 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 stamps. Designed by Lim An-ling and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13. Rating:- *****.

2394. 🇮🇪 Ireland’s Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues.

🇮🇪 An Post (Postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

2 November 2023 - Christmas - 6 self-adhesive stamps from booklets (1 booklet containing 22 domestic rate stamps or 1 booklet containing 5 domestic rate stamps, ‘N’ and 1 booklet containing 5 International rate stamps, ‘W’). Designed by Red&Grey from illustrations by Tara O’Brien and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

2 November 2023 - 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with The Netherlands - 1 stamp. Designed by Aisha Khalistan and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

2280. 🇳🇬 🇦🇺 Nigeria Commemorates Inauguration of PAPU Tower; Australia Commemorates Sydney Opera House.

 

New issues.

🇳🇬 NIPost, Postal service of Nigeria -

2 September 2023 - Inauguration of the PAPU (Pan-African Postal Union) Tower in Arusha, Tanzania - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 identical stamps. Lithographed by NSPM plc. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

8 October 2023 - Commemoration of Samrat Hemachandra Vikramaditya, former emperor of India, defeated by Akbar - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇺 Australia Post-

10 October 2023 - 50th anniversary of Sydney Opera House - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps and 1 x $3  self-adhesive stamp from booklets of 5. Designed by Jason Watts and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14.4 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

18 October 2023 - Post and Go stamps, The Postal Museum - Temporary exhibition. ‘Dressed to Deliver’ (postal service uniforms) - 6 previously issued stamps with additional inscription, ‘The Postal Museum/Dressed to Deliver’. To be dispensed by kiosk A001 and also sold in limited number of presentation packs dispensed from Back Office machine.