2822. 🇲🇹🇨🇦🇭🇰 Bumper edition - Malta, Canada And Hong Kong 2026 New Issue Programme.

 

New issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

20 November 2025 - Christmas, Santa Claus and his reindeers - 10 x 45c. Designed by Fabius Agius and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14.5. Illustrations awaited.

‘Se-tenant’ issues -

Stamps issued with attached labels often noting philatelic exhibitions - 

21 November 2024 - Veronafil 2024 philatelic exhibition - 1 stamp.

14 March 2025 -Maltex 2025 philatelic exhibition - 1 stamp.

20 November 2025 - Veronafil 2025 philatelic exhibition - 2 stamps.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

3 November 2025 - Remembrance Day - see Blog 2820. A sheetlet containing 5 additional probably gummed stamps was issued additional to the items described in Blog 2820.

6 November 2025 - Christmas -

‘Religious’ design - 1 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 12 identical stamps (2 panes of 6). Designed by Sputnik Design Partners Inc from an illustration by Bex Morley and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

‘Secular’ designs - 3 self-adhesive stamps from individual booklets (12 x ‘Permanent’ value, 6 x $1?5 and 6 x $3.65) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 1 of each value), Designed by Kristine Do from illustrations by Alexandra Finkeldey and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

?November 2025 - My Stamp, personalised stamp - 50th anniversary of Coal India - 1 stamp with attached label printed in sheetlets of 12.

2026 new issue programmes.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

5 January 2026 - Chinese new year, Year of the Hotse - 4 stamps, 2 single stamp miniature sheets, 2 ‘Heartwarming’ stamps produced in ‘mini-panes’ and 1 ‘gold and silver’ miniature sheet marking the transition from the Year of the Snake to the Year of the Horse. Designed by Wong Chun-hong and lithographed. Rating:- *****.

24 March 2026 - Hong Kong Museums collection - Xubhaizhai collection + 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets containing single stamps. Designed by Alex Tang Ho-pan and lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2 April 2026 - ‘Old Master Q 2’, festive celebrations- 6 stamps and 2 single-stamp miniature sheets. Designed by Young HoI-chun and lithographed. Rating:- **.

30 April 2026 - Animals in Chinese idioms - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Paul Lam and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

28 May 2026 - Road safety -4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Prudence Mak and lithographed. Rating:- **.

18 June 2026 - Intangible cultural heritage, Tao O Dragon Boat Water Parade - further details and illustrations awaited.

2821. 🇯🇪 Two More Jersey Sets For Christmas And Astronomy.

 

.New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

Jersey Post is continuing to do its best to release as many expensive new issues as it can in a short period of time. So, here’s yet two more issues -

11 November 2025 - Christmas, ‘Letters to Santa’ - 8 stamps, total face value £19.30p. Designed from illustrations by Richard Wake & lithographed. Rating:- 0.

18 November 2025 - The Jersey sky at night - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 stamps, total cost £23.50p. Designed from images courtesy of Neil Maher and Gordon Pollock and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- 0.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

🇨🇽 Issues inscribed Christmas Islands -

5 November 2025 - Chinese new year, Year of the Horse - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. This is presented mounted on a coin cover as part of Australia Post’s exhaustingly expensive Impressions series of severely overpriced items and as such is of little interest except that the miniature sheet will probably be part of the upcoming Chinese New Year series due, I presume, in the new year. Rating:- 0.

2820. 🇨🇦 Canada Remembers The Contribution Of Sikh Soldiers.

 

New issues -

🇮🇳 India Post -

24 October 2025 - 80th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 1 stamp. Designed by Shrestha Majumdar.. Rating:- ***.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

27 October 2025 — ‘Black Kashmir Day’, “78 years of oppression”. Lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating-***.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

3 November 2025 - Remembrance Day, ‘Private Singh’, remembrance of Sikh soldiers - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in a booklet of 6 costing $7.44. Designed by Larry Burke and Anna Stredulinsky, Burke & Burke, from an illustration by Parm Singh and Dave Peleschak and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ****.

2819. 🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha Features Man’s Best Friend.

 

New Issues -

🇸🇭 Postal service of Tristan Da Cunha -

24 November 2025 - Dogs, part 1 - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson with the backgrounds based on photographs by Julia Gunther and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle of Man Stamps and Collectables for information about this issue. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

October 2025 - My Post personalised stamp, Birth centenary of Gaura Devi, conservationist - 1 stamp with attached labels issued in sheetlets of 12 and sold at a premium. 

Countries which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 - 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas

Belize

British Antarctic Territory (several issues are expected to be released during November)

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands (it has been stated that no new stamps are planned for issue during 2025)

Cook Islands including Rarotonga

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica

Gabon

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Lesotho 

Montserrat 

Nauru 

Nevis

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Rwanda

St Kitts or St Kitts Nevis

Saint Lucia 

Samoa 

South Africa 

Solomon Islands 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia.

This list remains unchanged from last month. Hence 37 out of 88 (42%) Commonwealth postal entities appear to have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 34.8% at the end of October 2024.