2810. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Post Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness.

 

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

14 October 2025 - International Breast Cancer Awareness Week - 1 stamp printed in sheetlets of 9 and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Abu Obaidah Ayaz and Hasnain Mahmud and lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

4 November 2025 - Christmas - 5 self-adhesive stamps from sheets, 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets, 1 miniature sheet, and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ (presumably). The designs of the 2nd Class and 2nd Class Large values has been revealed ahead of time by Royal Mail Wholesale in an announcement promoting the sale to businesses of the designs as digital stamps. These look to be very much in the same style as some previous Christmas issues, once more telling the.Christmas story. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

8 November 2025 - Conic art in Malta, Diabolik - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Riccardo Nunzaiti (copyright Astoria SRL) and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

2318. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post To Issue ‘Digital Stamps’ 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

New issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

4 June 2023 - Commemoration of the Most Venerable Henepola Gunarathana Nayaka Maha Thero - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

1 June 2023 - Endemic birds of Myanmar, the Burmese tit - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Security Printing Works (Myanmar). Rating:- *****.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

9 June 2023 - Quatercentenary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio of plays, Post and Go stamps dispensed from kiosk A009 located at the Shakespeare Birthday Trust gift shop in Stratford upon Avon - Union Flag and Machin Head stamps with new site locating inscription ‘Shakespeare BPT’ and additional inscription ‘First Folio 400’. These inscriptions will continue to be used until the end of 2023.

22 June 2023 - 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush in Britain - 8 stamps. The designs will be revealed to the public at an event to be held at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton on 15 June 2023. The stamps were designed by five artists of Caribbean descent. The arrival of the migrants aboard the Windrush effectively began the era of mass migration from abroad to Britain. Foreign migration to Britain was previously noted by one of the four Settlers Tale stamps issued on 6 April 1999 as part of the series issued to commemorate the new millennium.

🇹🇱 Postal service of Timor Leste -

Date of issue unknown ?2012 ?Unreleased - AICEP Lubrapex 2012 philatelic exhibition - 1 stamp. The Joint Stamp Issues internet site has recently reported that one of its contributors, Wenchao Chen of the People’s Republic of China, has discovered a sheet of stamps which appear to represent the issue from the Timor Leste postal service released as part of the omnibus issue of the Lusophone countries issued in 2012. Each postal service released a single stamp commemorating a literary figure of each respective country; in the case of Timor Leste the depicted literary figure is the poet Francisco Borja Da Costa who wrote the words of the Timorese national anthem but who was executed at the age of 29 by the Indonesians the day after they invaded East Timor in 1975. Chen has reported a sheet of 50 of these stamps - the first time that anyone has been aware of them - though they may have been issued almost 11 years ago though equally they may not have been officially released at all or they may have been issued at any time since 2012. News of Timorese stamps is scant and infrequent and the stamps may well have been issued without anyone being made aware of them. We will see in due course. The stamp is certainly in the style of the other stamps in the omnibus.

The imprint on the lower border of the sheet confirms that the stamps were printed at INCM (Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda), the National printing house in Portugal in 2012.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

In the scramble to produce collectibles to shore up its contribution to the finances of New Zealand Post, its  Stamps and Collectables department has announced that it is to stray into the world of digital stamps and non fungible tokens and that its first such products will feature the 1898 pictorial stamps. It’s fascinating how ever more there is a necessity for things virtual rather than real in this world where British stamps feature foreign comic characters and toy elves and goblins. Doubtless someone with money to burn will be attracted by these products (or are they non-products?).

1989. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Commemorates 50 Years Of Independence.

 

🇦🇪 The postal service of The United Arab Emirates, Emirates Post, issued a se-tenant pair of 1 AED face value stamps  (=2 x 21p in pounds Sterling) and 8 miniature sheets each with a face value of 7 AED (=£1.44p) on 2 December 2021 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the granting of independence by The United Kingdom, after the expiration of the treaty between the various parties, to the seven Gulf emirates which had previously been known as The Trucial States over which it had held protectorates and the combination of six of the territories (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain) to form The United Arab Emirates (Ras al-Khaimah joined on 10 January 1972). United Arab Emirates (UAE) was admitted to membership of The United Nations on 9 December 1971 but, like Britain’s other Gulf state former protectorates (Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar), it did not seek membership of The Commonwealth.

  The miniature sheets show all the rulers of each emirate together with individual portraits of each ruler on a miniature sheet of their own. The total face value of the issue is AED58 (=£11.92p).

   If all that were not enough, rather alarmingly Emirates Post also released another issue to commemorate its golden jubilee in the form of 4 stamp cards which are physical postage stamps which have a “digital twin that can be collected in a digital crypto wallet”. Emirates Post also states that the highest value (AED 2021 face value = £415.81p which, without looking back on old blogs, makes it, I think, the postage stamp with the highest ever face value) depicts the “UAE desert landscape and invokes the journey of the founding fathers, starting from meetings in the desert to forming the country of the future”. The publicity for the issue goes on to say, “The stamp contains a one gram gold bar minted with the “Spirit of the Union” Year of the 50th logo”. 

  The publicity also tells us that “the NFT stamp card is a high quality credit card-sized plastic card comprised of 5 PVC layers and the gold bar is laminated into the card itself. The golden NFT stamp pack also includes a physical stamp of the same design without the gold bar. There are 2021 NFT stamps issued in this design”. By which I presume it means the other three ‘stamps’ in the set which all have a face value of AED250 (=£51.44p) - one depicts the ‘Spirit of the Union’ logo, the second depicts the ‘Year of the 50th’ logo and the third depicts the ‘Projects of the 50’ in the form of a space theme. The set therefore has a total face value of £570.13p. Probably not something for my collection then, I should think.

  🇧🇲 Depicted below are the two previously reported stamps (see Blog 1969) from the postal service of Bermuda issued on 18 October 2021 which commemorate Bermuda’s first Olympic Games gold medallist,  Flora Duffy.