2899. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Reveals New Issues For Second Half Of 2026.

 

2026 New issue programmes.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

Royal Mail has now revealed most of the remaining new issues for 2026.

The subjects of two issues have still not been revealed. The Commonwealth Games are to be hosted between 23 July and 2 August and there appears to be no issue to celebrate the Games. This will be the first Commonwealth Games to be hosted in the United Kingdom not to be marked by a Royal Mail stamp issue. This appears to be a remarkably random collection of subjects and there seems to be little of significance to justify the vast amounts of money which doubtlessly will need to be paid by one-of-everything collectors (if there are any such creatures still in existence). Depressing. I’m not really all that interested to know what the unidentified issues are. Ho hum.

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 April 2026 - Commemoration of Pandit Chatur Lal, musician - 1 stamp. Rating:-***. 

🇲🇾 9 April 2026 - Treasures of the national visual arts, part 3 - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

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:- ***.

2803. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Monopoly.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

16 October 2025 - 90th anniversary of the introduction of Monopoly, a board game invented in the United States -  10 x 1st Class domestic rate stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5) (cost £17) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 different stamps with attached labels costing £18.20. Designed by Hat-trick Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Assuredly the dullest set of 10 stamps commemorating the most inconsequential of anniversaries that Royal Mail has yet managed to come up with. Rating:- 0.

🇰🇾 Postal service of the Cayman Islands -

There will be no postage stamps issued during 2025 by the Cayman Islands postal service according to an article published by Cayman Compass a week ago:-

🇧🇧 Barbados postal service -

1 October 2025 - 70th anniversary of the Barbados Fire Brigade - 5 stamps. Barbados Stamps has recently featured these new stamps on its internet site -

2798. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Christmas Stamps Designed By College Stufents.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

22 October 2025 - ‘Crank up Christmas’, 50th anniversary of University College Isle Of Man - 6 gummed stamps, 6 self-adhesive stamps and 2 booklets, one containing 10 x 90p values and 10 x £1 values. Total cost of all these items is £42.12p. Designed by students of University College and lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

10 October 2025 - ‘S60’ (60the anniversary of the State of Singapore, My Stamp, ‘Stories of our post offices’ 5 different stamps (2 of each) with attached labels. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.