2984. 🇸🇬 First Lenticular Stamps From Singapore.

 

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

8 September 2026 - International Literacy Day - 2 stamps issued in a se-tenant pair in sheetlets of 8. Lithographed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Karachi. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post  -

9 October 2026 - ‘Singapore Then & Now’, World Post Day - 2 miniature sheets sold in a folder, each containing a single stamp, both are produced as lenticular stamps.  Rating:- ***.

8 October 2026 - World Post Day, My Stamp - 1 sheetlet of 7 My Stamp stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

25 September 2026 - Five Nation Stamp Exhibition held in Kangaroo, Perlis - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth countries which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026 until the end of September -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Jamaica 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nevis

New Zealand (Ross Dependency)

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rwanda

St Kitts/St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Seychelles 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Trinidad and Tobago 

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore, at the end of September, 39 (44.3%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or have not had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026. This compares with a figure of 48.9% at the end of August 2026 and 42% at the end of September 2025.

2871. 🇨🇦 Canada New Issue Features Cherry Blossom.

 

New issues - 

🇨🇦  Canada Post -

2 March 2026 - Cherry blossoms - 2 self-adhesive stamps from coile & 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 & 1 gummed miniature sheet containing both stamps. Designed by Belisle Creative and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇼 Malawi Post - 

Note -  Anonymous has kindly & correctly identified that these are not new issues and are actually first mentioned in Blogs 830 and 1038. I apologise for mistakenly thinking that therse are new issues. There are so many surcharges from Malawi currently on the market that it’s rather difficult to keep up with them & to recall items issued 10 years ago. I leave the post in place as it emphasises just how long we have been encountering these surcharged issues from Malawi as well as other countries such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Zambia, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago.

2016 - surcharges on stamps from previous definitive issue - 2 stamps. Rating:- *****.

2016 - surcharges on stamps from previous definitive issue - 4 stamps. Rating:- *****.

  The above illustrations are taken from the internet site of Zirinsky Stamps and are offered for sale there.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

25 February 2026 - Hari Raya, My Stamps - 1 sheetlet of 8 identical stamps with labels attached sold in a pack containing other items. Lithographed. Rating:-***.

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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:- ***.

2547. 🇧🇳🇲🇾🇲🇲🇸🇬 Joint ASEAN Issue.

 

New issues.

8 August - Joint issue by the 10 countries which are members of ASEAN, 57th anniversary of the founding of the organisation. One stamp from each postal entity. I have featured a couple of these issues before but I now include better illustrations. All lithographed by various printers. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam Postal Services Department - 1 stamp.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia - 1 stamp.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post Office - 1 stamp.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post - 1 stamp.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

announced 9 August 2024 - Australian gold medal winners at the Olympic Games hosted by Paris, 2024 (numbers 14-16). One stamp for each Olympic champion printed in sheetlets of 10 each sold for A$15 -

Sailing, Men’s dinghy - Matt Wearn -

Skateboarding, Men’s Park - Keegan Palmer -

Track cycling, Men’s Team Pursuit -

2544. 🇮🇳 🇧🇩 India’s Olympic Games Stamps; New Philatelic Future For Bangladesh?

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

5 August 2024 - Olympic Games 2024 hosted by Paris - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

6 August 2024 - Wetland birds (see Blog 2529) - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps (the basic stamps were illustrated in Blog 2529, the miniature sheet is now also illustrated here). Designed by Elvense Illustration and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

8 August 2024 - Joint issue of the ASEAN Post organisation. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth events 

Downfall of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh 5 August 2024.

  After months of violent protests against her regime, the primeminister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the country’s leader at the time of the war of Independence against Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has resigned as protestors stormed her official residence. Hasina fled the country in an aircraft supplied by the country’s military and is seeking refuge in India. During the demonstrations against her oppressive and failed regime, thousands have been killed. Following Hasina’s fight to India a mob tore down a statute of Sheikh Mujib in Dhaka, in a manner similar to the demolition of the statue of Salam Hussein in Baghdad after his overthrow.

  This momentous event will undoubtedly have an important effect on the stamps which are issued by the Bangladesh postal administration as for several years many, if not most, stamp issues have iconised Sheikh Mujib as the Father of Bangladesh and as well as featuring Mujib have also frequently depicted Sheikh Hasina. Presumably the stamp subjects and designs were chosen at the behest of Hasina’s government to glorify her increasingly unpopular regime.

  So Bangladesh appears to face a new future and with it its postage stamps and I assume we have seen the back of Hasina’s frequent philatelic depictions.

Bangladesh’s most recent stamp issue (17 May 2024) ostensibly to commemorate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day but used as an excuse to include portraits of Hasina and Mujib in the design - 

23 September 2022 - one of several recent stamps depicting Hasina and Mujib - 

28 September 2022 - stamp commemorating Hasina’s 75th birthday -