New issues.
🇺🇸 Products released by the American agency IGPC with the names of the countries of some of its Commonwealth client postal services printed on them -
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea -
19 September 2022 - Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea - 5 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- **.
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The Gambia -
1 December 2022 - ‘The Magical world of scarabs’ (beetles) - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp.
5 December 2022 - Visit of USA President Biden to Israel - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.
🇬🇩 Grenada -
22 January 2023 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Rabbit - 1 miniature sheet containing 12 identical stamps.
🇬🇩 Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique -
9 December 2022 - Visit of USA President Biden to Spain - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
🇰🇳 Nevis -
1 December 2002 - ‘The Wonderful world of clownfish’- 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
5 December 2022 - Visit of US President Biden to Poland- 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
🇻🇨 St Vincent And The Grenadines -
12 December 2022 - Hummingbirds of the world - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
12 December 2022 - ‘Nature’s beautiful ducks’) - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
🇹🇻 Tuvalu -
18 November 2022 - The Concorde (Anglo-French aircraft) - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
5 December 2022 - Visit of USA President Biden to the Vatican City - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.
22 January 2023 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Rabbit - 1 miniature sheet containing 12 stamps (4 each of 3 different designs).
New issue programmes of 2023.
🇨🇦 Canada Post.
“The 2023 Canadian stamp program will celebrate some of the country’s most accomplished individuals, feature milestones, and the holidays that bring communities together”. This aim to celebrate Canada and its achievers is in stark contrast to that of Royal Mail whose 2023 programme is aimed at celebrating nothing but the trivial and the banal (apart, of course, from the coronation of our new king).
Canada’s new issues will include -
Canada’s first definitive stamp honouring King Charles III
Ferries
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ (6 stamps)
Quebec arrivals and trailblazers
A notable hockey player
A World War 2 hero
Black History Month
Flowers
Canada Post Community Foundation
Indigenous community leaders (3 stamps)
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Eid, Diwali and Hanukkah festivals
Christmas and ‘holiday’ stamps
I like that Canada Post sees itself as a teller of the national story which I believe is a role that stamp issues should play. If only those who are employed by Royal Mail, doubtless on very large salaries, to choose the subjects for that company’s stamp issues, felt the same national pride and sense of history and achievement as those responsible for Canada Post’s stamp programme then collecting new British stamps might once more be a worthwhile pursuit.
