2979. 🇳🇿 New Zealand’s 2026 Christmas Stamps.

New issues -

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

7 October 2026 - Christmas - 4 gummed stamps, 3 self-adhesive stamps from booklets and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Tim Garman and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 15. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 12 September 2026 - 18th BRICS Summit, hosted by the Indian government in New Delhi - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Rating:- ****.

2835. 🇿🇦 South Africa Commemorates Museum Bicentenary.

 

New issues -

🇿🇦 South African Post Office -

12 November 2025 - Bicentenary of Iziko South African Museum in Capetown - 1 sheetlet of 6 different self-adhesive stamps. Lithographed. The illustrations are from a post by Jan van Milligan on the Facebook page of the Philatelic Federation of South Africa and attention is drawn to the fact that while the first day covers are dated 12 November 2025, the ‘launch date’ was 12 December 2025. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post - 

4 December 2025 - 46th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, hosted by Bahrain - 3 stamps issued in sheetlets of 6 (2 strips made up of all 3 stamps). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

9 December 2025 - Christmas - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps. Rating:- ****.

2026 new programmes.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

Canada Post has announced that the following subjects are expected to be included in its 2026 new releases -

Black History Month - ‘Hip Hop pioneers’

Cultural traditions - Maple syrup month and sugar shacks

Wildlife - 4 species of wolves found in Canada

‘Places of Pride’

Centenary of the Royal Canadian Legion and commemoration of the role of Chinese Canadians in the Second World War

Blood donations

Seasonal issue - Jack o’Lanterns to be issued in October

Flowers - cherry blossoms

Eid

Diwali 

Hanukkah 

Christmas 

2765. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Commemorates Monty Python.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 August 2025 - 50th anniversary of Monty Python, BBC television comedy series & film - 6 stamps (3 vertically se-tenant pairs, (cost £10.20p), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different self-adhesive stamps (Monty Python and The Holy Grail, cost £6.80p), 1 miniature sheet containing the 6 different stamps in self -adhesive format with labels (£11.40p, ‘Collectors sheeet), 1 miniature sheet containing 3 identical self-adhesive  stamps with labels (Monty Python and The Holy Grail ‘fan sheet’, cost £7.50p) and 1 ‘Gold miniature sheet’, cost £149.99p). Designed by Common Curiosity and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5. 

Great designs celebrating British humour as it was 50 years ago but now long lost under the pressure of political correctness and pofacedness and the need to be offended. An excessive issue with grossly unnecessary extra items (yes, I know they’re for the fans) but let’s give the basic set & miniature sheet a full blown ***** in memory of a lost Britain and its zany, rude sense of humour.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 June 2025 - 80th anniversary of the League of Arab States - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamp personalised stamps sold to the public at a premium by India Post. Usually produced in sheetlets of 12 stamps with attached labels.

2025 - Centenary of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhahbad - 1 stamp with attached label.

2757. 🇮🇪 Theatre Featured On An Post New Issue.

 

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

24 July 2025 - 50th anniversary of the Druid Theatre - 2 self-adhesive stamps, one issued in sheetlets of 4 (W) and the other in sheetlets of 8 (N). Designed by Atelier David Smith and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

25 July 2025 - Commemoration of Rani Chennabhairadevi - 1 stamp. Designed by Sh. Abuj Kumar and printed by Security Printing Press Hyderabad. Rating:- ***.

🇹🇹 T & T Post (postal service of Trinidad And Tobago) -

2025 - 50th anniversary of CARICOM - there appears to have been a high value surcharge additional to the stamp featured in Blog 2738. Rating:- ****.

stamp featured in Blog 2738 -