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Speakers at the Chittagong University letter festival, with stamp displays behind the stage.🇧🇩 Bangladesh

A day-long letter festival and stamp-sales programme was held at the University of Chittagong sub-post office on 12 October 2026. The opening and discussion began at 11:30 am as part of World Post ...

Why it matters

The event combined stamp sales with letter-writing activity at the university post office.

Updated20 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇧🇩 Bangladesh
Officials display the Jal Mahal special cover at the Narnaul Head Post Office ceremony.🇮🇳 India

India Post’s Bhiwani–Narnaul division released a special cover and cancellation devoted to Narnaul’s Jal Mahal on 12 October 2026. The ceremony took place at Narnaul Head Post Office. Haryana State...

Why it matters

The release gives Narnaul’s Jal Mahal a dedicated special cover and postal cancellation.

Updated20 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Foolish Fortnight Christmas stamp sheet from Isle of Man Stamps and Coins.🇮🇲 Isle of Man

Isle of Man Stamps & Coins announced a twelve-design Christmas issue on 12 October 2026, with release scheduled for 20 October. “Kegeesh Ommidjagh – Foolish Fortnight” celebrates Manx festive custo...

Why it matters

Reveals a twelve-design Manx-language festive issue with production details and limited first-day products.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event20 Oct'26Country🇮🇲 Isle of Man
Stamp exhibition and letter-writing programme at Dhaka University.🇧🇩 Bangladesh

A day-long stamp exhibition and letter-writing programme took place at Dhaka University on 12 October 2026. The Directorate of Posts and Bangladesh National Philatelic Association organised it duri...

Why it matters

Documents a completed university exhibition with identified original postal-history material and ten contributing collectors.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇧🇩 Bangladesh
Philately club inauguration programme at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballia.🇮🇳 India

A philately club was inaugurated at PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballia, on 12 October 2026 as part of the district’s Fun with Philately Day activities. Postal Superintendent Rajeev Kumar Srivastava...

Why it matters

Records a new school club and quantified participation in associated postal education activities.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Close-up of the dark-blue Tamil Nadu Philately Passport cover, showing its title and part of the gold state outline.🇮🇳 India

Tamil Nadu Postal Circle’s Philately Passport went on sale on 19 October 2026 after its launch at Chennai GPO on 12 October. The pocket-sized booklet covers 58 locations represented by permanent pi...

Why it matters

The ₹650 price, 58-location scope and five-city sales network turn the previously announced booklet into an obtainable statewide collecting programme.

Updated20 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26–19 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Officials display Chhattisgarh waterfall picture postcards at the release programme.🇮🇳 India

The Department of Posts released picture postcards depicting five Chhattisgarh waterfalls during a media programme in Raipur on 12 October 2026. The subjects are Mandwa, Lankapalli, Chitrakot, Tamd...

Why it matters

Provides the authoritative five-subject list for a new regional postcard release.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Odisha Postal Circle officials present the permanent pictorial cancellation designs.🇮🇳 India

Odisha Postal Circle released ten permanent pictorial cancellations in Bhubaneswar on 12 October 2026 for Fun with Philately Day. Chief Postmaster General Nirmaljit Singh unveiled designs covering ...

Why it matters

Adds ten destination-specific cancellations and identifies where the associated postcard and bookmarks are sold.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Officials display the migratory-bird picture postcards and Philately Day cancellation at Mumbai GPO.🇮🇳 India

Mumbai General Post Office released the picture-postcard pack “Migratory Bird of India Series–1” and a special Philately Day cancellation on 12 October 2026. The cards use photographs by naturalist...

Why it matters

Documents a newly released bird postcard pack and a dated Philately Day cancellation.

Updated16 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇧🇷 Brazil

A commemorative postage stamp for the 95th anniversary of Christ the Redeemer was launched in Rio de Janeiro on 12 October 2026. Diário do Rio’s report, published that day at 11:46, confirms that t...

Why it matters

The fresh report confirms the completed launch of the 95th-anniversary postal stamp, previously announced in advance.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇧🇷 Brazil
Philately News🇮🇹 Italy

Poste Italiane’s notice 1264 illustrates a cancellation for the Abbiatense Saint Francis exhibition. The 17 October service runs from 14:00 to 19:00 at Basilica Santa Maria Nuova, Abbiategrasso. It...

Why it matters

It supplies the pictorial cancellation and hours.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event17 Oct'26Country🇮🇹 Italy
Philately News🇮🇹 Italy

A separate first-day cancellation service for the Dylan Dog stamp will operate at Poste Italiane’s Corso Garibaldi stand in Lucca on 28 October 2026, from 09:00 to 19:00. Notice 1263 appears in the...

Why it matters

It confirms Dylan Dog’s first-day servicing venue.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event28 Oct'26Country🇮🇹 Italy
Italian Giornata della Filatelia 2026 stamp depicting Son Goku with Dragon Ball Z logo and B zona 1 50g tariff.🇮🇹 Italy

Poste Italiane issued its Giornata della Filatelia 2026 stamp on 28 October, featuring Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z. The stamp is inscribed “B zona 1 50g” and is accompanied by a sheet incorporating...

Why it matters

Official release supplies the design and distinguishes the postage stamp from three accompanying non-postal labels, previously deferred in the service notice.

Updated2 Nov'26News date12 Oct'26Event28 Oct'26Country🇮🇹 Italy
ITALIA 2026 publishes press pack with literary prizes and meeting programme🇮🇹 Italy

FEPA published the ITALIA 2026 press pack on 12 October, ahead of the international philatelic literature exhibition in Rome on 15–18 October. The seven-page document brings together the prize arra...

Why it matters

The newly published pack documents the literary prizes and detailed parallel programme.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event15 Oct'26–18 Oct'26Country🇮🇹 Italy
Archangel Gabriel stamp receives ceremonial cancellation at Kyiv’s Lavra🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukrposhta and Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence presented the Archangel Gabriel postal issue on 12 October 2026, Military Chaplain Day. Ukrposhta’s report confirms that the ceremonial cancellation too...

Why it matters

The report establishes the completed cancellation ceremony’s venue and participants.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event12 Oct'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
Ukrposhta announces U-denominated Lemkivshchyna pysanka definitive🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukrposhta’s 12 October 2026 philatelic bulletin announces stamp No. 2263, Lemkivshchyna, in the tenth definitive issue devoted to Ukrainian folk pysanky. The purple-and-white decorated egg stamp en...

Why it matters

The bulletin supplies the new definitive’s denomination, quantity, sheet format and security-paper specifications.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Event15 Oct'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
PostEurop names Irish and Romanian winners of EUROPA anniversary postcard competition🌐 International

PostEurop announced the results of its EUROPA stamps 70th-anniversary postcard design competition on 12 October 2026. Ellie O’Mahony of Ireland and Pavel Cantor of Romania won the two €500 prizes. ...

Why it matters

The award identifies six designs produced as official EUROPA anniversary postcards.

Updated13 Oct'26News date12 Oct'26Country🌐 International
Nuakhai special cover depicting harvest and folk-cultural scenes with a Bhubaneswar cancellation dated 15 September 2026.🇮🇳 India

A Nuakhai special cover was released at Bhubaneswar GPO on 15 September 2026. The cover’s artwork brings together farming, grain, folk music and dance, and a temple scene. Its pictorial cancellatio...

Why it matters

Records a harvest-festival cover with a visibly dated Bhubaneswar cancellation.

Updated23 Oct'26News date11 Oct'26Event15 Sep'26Country🇮🇳 India
Visitors and collectors examining open stamp albums on tables at the La Serena meeting on 10 October 2026.🇨🇱 Chile

The First Philatelic Meeting of La Serena took place at the Sociedad de Artesanos on 10 October 2026, according to Plan Serena’s report published on 11 October. Participants displayed collections, ...

Why it matters

Confirms the meeting’s actual occurrence and date after earlier postponements and records its connection with research into SOFILACO.

Updated22 Oct'26News date11 Oct'26Event10 Oct'26Country🇨🇱 Chile
Auction photograph of Malaya revenue-stamp material in the Orchard Road collection.🇸🇬 Singapore

The Orchard Road Collection of Malaya Revenues is scheduled for auction in Singapore on 29 October 2026 at 19:00 Singapore time. The auctioneer lists The Library, Level 11, Frasers House, as the ve...

Why it matters

The auction offers a dedicated Malaya revenue collection with a Singapore viewing and specialist talk.

Updated20 Oct'26News date11 Oct'26Event29 Oct'26Country🇸🇬 Singapore