1728. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Commemorates The 2020 Olympic Games.

🇳🇿 Curiously New Zealand Post will issue a set of 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps on 7 October 2020 to commemorate the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo which of course did not take place because of the COVID-19 pandemic but which have been postponed until (optimistically) summer 2021. I assume that New Zealand Post had these items on its hands and wanted to get its money back although the timing is a little odd. This is a gloomy-looking set with a sparing use of colour and it might have been better if it had remained unissued but perhaps the depressing designs are apt for this pandemic philatelic era. The issue was designed by Hannah Fortune and lithographed by Southern Colour Print and is perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post issued a single stamp on 2 September 2020 to commemorate the Cultural Pageant. The stamp was lithographed and is perforated 12.5 x 14. Rating:- ****.

🇰🇮 Below are illustrations of the 4 stamps issued by the Kiribati postal administration on 31 August 2020 on the subject of solar energy which I mentioned in Blog 1726 where an illustration of the miniature sheet can be seen. 

1570. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post’s Personalised Stamps Of 2019.

🇳🇿 I now have the New Zealand Post personalised stamps compiled in a pack for 2019 which I mentioned in Blog 1564. The various stamps - 12 gummed and 2 self-adhesive - cover a range of subjects including Birds.

Gummed stamps:-

There are just 2 self-adhesive stamps:-

🇬🇧 The Royal Mail Winter Greenery 1st Class rate stamps were dispensed from kiosk A005 with inscription Mail Rail during December 2019. The code is MAIL R17YAL. Rating:- *.

🇯🇪 The Jersey Post and Go stamps released on 19 November 2019 were made up by the Jersey Flag stamp inscribed ‘Festive Cheer’ with a Christmas trees icon and the 6 Jersey Crest stamps inscribed Boannes Fêtes also with a Christmas tree icon. The items were dispensed by kiosk JE02. Rating:- 0.

🇰🇳 The 2 miniature sheets on the subject of Angelfish released by IGPC with the name of Nevis printed on them have a stated date of issue of 1 September 2019.