2853. 🇬🇬🇮🇲🇯🇪 Mainly Channel Islands Products.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

27 January 2026 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Wang Huming & lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- *.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

20 January 2026 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse - 4 stamps. Designed by Martin Mörck and lithographed. Rating:- *.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

11 February 2026 - Guernsey parishes (part 1) - 6 stamps. Designed by Two Degrees North and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.

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

15 January 2026 - Centenary of broadcasting in Ireland - 1 stamp. Designed by Red&Grey and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

December 2025 - My Stamp personalised stamp, 60th anniversary of Chennai Petroleum Corporation - 1 stamp with attached label. Issued by India Post in a sheetlet of 12 at a premium price.

2025 - Centenary of Rashtriya Swayamsavak Sangh - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

New issue programmes -

🇳🇦 Nam Post (postal service of Namibia) -

15 April 2026 - Lithrops (birds) of Namibia

8 May 2026 - Chameleons 

4 August 2026 - Petrified forest

9 September 2026 - Plovers (birds).

The Namibia new issue programme is taken from the Spectre of Stamps internet site.

2834. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates World Children’s Day.

 

New issues - 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

20 November 2025 - World Children’s Day - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Designed by Mubashair Nassir, Abu Obadiah Ayaaz and Hasnain Mahmud and lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2025 - My Stamps, personalised stamps. Usually issued in sheetlets of 12 stamps with arrached labels and sold at a premium.

2025 + 25th anniversary of TransUnion CIBIL- 1 stamp.

2025 - Birth centenary of P. Obul Reddy, entrepreneur and philanthropist - 1 stamp.

2025 - Golden jubilee of Integrated Child Development Services - 1 stamp.

2025 - 550th anniversary of Shree Samstham Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Math - 1 stamp.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

8 December 2025 - Centenary of rubber research in Malaysia - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2779. 🇻🇨 St Vincent Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of Cricket World Cup Victory.

 

New Issues -

🇻🇨 St Vincent and The Grenadines postal service -  

5 August 2025 - 50th anniversary of the West Indies’ Cricket World Cup victory in 1975 - 9 x EC$50 stamps featuring West Indies cricketing ‘Legends’. Lithographed. Total face value equivalent in pounds is £123.30 per set! Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

17 August 2025 - Birth centenary of Laxmidas Borkar, journalist, ‘freedom fighter’ and writer. Rating:- **.

30 August 2025 - Commemoration of Sri Madhavacharya - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

2627. 🇳🇿 New Zealand’s Year Of The Snake Issue.

 

New Issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

15 January 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by YMC Design Wellington and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13.5.Rating:- *.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post - 

Products inscribed Alderney -

5 January 2025 - Alderney’s Blue Plaque Trail - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed by Two Degrees North and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- **.

2323. 🇯🇪 Jersey Celebrates Judith Kerr Centenary.

New issues.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

14 June 2023 - Birth centenary of Judith Kerr, German-born British artist with no links to Jersey as far as I can see - 8 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet. Lithographed by bpost and designed by Judith Kerr. These are charming stamps but given Jersey’s excessive new issue programme & the artist’s apparent lack of links to Jersey, the rating is:- *.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

28 June 2023 - 75th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the HMT Empire Windrush bringing Caribbean migrants to Britain - 8 stamps in 4 se-tenant pairs (see Blog 2319). Designed by The Chase and Supple Studio and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. The designs feature work by Bobika, Emma Prempeh, Kareen Cox, Tomekah George and Alvin Kofi. Rating:- **.