2976. 🇬🇧 Numerous Expensive Items In Royal Mail Duran Duran Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

17 September - 45th anniversary of the release of the first music album by the vintage popular music group, Duran Duran which, despite its popularity, has little or no significance in British music history - 8 stamps (£14.40), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (£7.20) , 2 Prestige booklets (one standard edition costing £26.25 and a’limited edition’ sold for £49.99 - both have the same contents - 2 panes including the stamps from the basic set, a pane of the miniature sheet and a pane of King Charles III definitives, 2 x 50p and 2 x £1) (code M26L MPIL), 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 self-adhesive stamps costing £19.20 and 2 ‘Fan sheets’ each containing 4 identical stamps and costing £10 each. Designed with no apparent effort involved by Royal Mail Group and lithographed by Cartor with the basic set perforated 14. Rating:- 0.

2972. 🇬🇧 Duran Duran To Feature On Royal Mail New Issue.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

17 September 2026 - 45th anniversary of the release of the first studio album by veteran popular music group, Duran Duran - 8 stamps issued in 2 se-tenant strips of 4. 

  News of other items such as a miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps, a ‘Collectors sheet’, ‘Fan sheets’ and other items is awaited. These illustrations are taken from a video on the Heptonstall Post Office and village Facebook page which often posts previews of Royal Mail new issues. 

  This music group is named after the villain, Durand Durand played by Milo O’Shea, in the 1960s movie Barbarella which starred Jane Fonda in the title role. Better quality illustrations and more information will be posted when available. Rating:- *.

  Nothing to do with the stamps, but here’s Durand Durand, being nasty to Barbarella in the film of that name -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

🇨🇽 Products inscribed Christmas Island -

1 September 2026 - Reprint of 2011 Chinese NewYear 15c stamp initially issued as part of a ‘zodiac sheet’ by McKellar Renown which no longer issues stamps. This item was reported by Ubobo R.O. on Stampboards and is presently an item of discussion. The fact that it is printed by a new printer means that it may be considered to be a new stamp. This stamp is a make-up value between the old and new postage rates. Rating:- ****.

2968. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s Final 2026 Issue Will Be ‘Football - Season 1”.

  New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

1 December - The final issue of 2026 has now been announced to the general public as being on the subject of ‘Football - Season 1”. Further details awaited.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post - 

17 September 2026 - Lingnan craftsmanship, Guangcai (The Canton Famille Rose Porcelain) making technique 4 stamps, 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 mini-pane containing 2 complete sets. Designed by Gideon Lai and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

17 September 2026 - Malaysia Day, Tapestry of Malaysia - 1 sheetlet containing 14 different stamps. Various designers. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2965. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail To Commemorate Winnie The Pooh Centenary.

 New Issues -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

26 August 2026 - National Meelad-Un-Nabi festival, 2026 - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka. Rating:- **.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

14 October 2026 - Winnie The Pooh - Royal Mail has now made public the news that this will be the subject of the extensive stamp issue to be released on this date which is the exact centenary date of the publication of AA Milne’s book about this character. Although numerous WTP stamps have been issued on this subject before, it is hard to complain about a centenary issue of an important (children’s’) book. Details awaited.

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

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Australia Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Australia Norfolk Island 

Australian Antarctic Territory 

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 

Samoa 

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 August, 43 (48.9%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2026.This compares with 52.3% at the end of July 2026 and 50% at the end of August 2025.