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USPS issues ninth Hanukkah stamp at New Orleans first-day ceremony🇺🇸 United States

The United States Postal Service placed its 2026 Hanukkah Forever stamp on sale nationwide on 29 September, completing the transition from an advance announcement to a current postal issue. The fir...

Why it matters

The 29 September release converts the previously announced design into a current nationwide Forever stamp and adds documented first-day material from Touro Synagogue in New Orleans.

Updated1 Oct'26News date28 Aug'26Event29 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Philately News🇮🇹 Italy

Poste Italiane has set out new public-service details for philatelic stations supporting the XX Mediterranean Games in Taranto. According to a company release published by Italian local news outlet...

Why it matters

The newly published schedule gives collectors actionable times and venues for obtaining Taranto 2026 products and special cancellations during the Games.

Updated29 Aug'26News date27 Aug'26Event27 Aug'26–3 Sep'26Country🇮🇹 Italy
Philately News🇺🇸 United States

NAPEX announced on 27 August 2026 that the Virginia Postal History Society will convene during NAPEX 2026, giving visitors a specific meeting point at Table K in the club hallway. The newly posted ...

Why it matters

The dated announcement gives postal-history collectors a newly confirmed specialist-society contact point at a World Series of Philately exhibition.

Updated29 Aug'26News date27 Aug'26Event28 Aug'26–30 Aug'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Philately News🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukrposhta released a personalized stamp issue dedicated to the 411th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade ‘Yastruby’ on 27 August 2026. The issue was produced through the postal operator’s ‘My Own Sta...

Why it matters

The issue adds a documented unmanned-systems subject to modern Ukrainian military philately and offers distinct numbered, general-sale and postal-stationery formats.

Updated29 Aug'26News date27 Aug'26Event27 Aug'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
Two Kyrgyz Express Post stamps depicting an Indian golden oriole and a common kingfisher.🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz Express Post issued two Birds of Kyrgyzstan stamps on 28 August 2026: a 150-som Indian golden oriole and a 300-som common kingfisher. Its 26 August newsletter links the issue to BIRDPEX 10 i...

Why it matters

The operator documents the species, denominations, sheet quantities and official authority for circulation.

Updated20 Oct'26News date26 Aug'26Event28 Aug'26Country🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Participants at the commemorative-stamp cancellation ceremony during the international media forum in Tashkent🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

A commemorative-stamp cancellation ceremony was held in Tashkent in connection with the International Media Forum titled “Islamic Civilization: A New Perspective – New Discoveries.” Report News Age...

Why it matters

The documented cancellation connects contemporary Uzbek postal material with an international forum on Islamic civilization and creates a precisely dated event for postal-history and thematic collections.

Updated22 Oct'26News date25 Aug'26Event25 Aug'26Country🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
Philately News🌐 Multiple countries

A new historical survey published by MICHEL on 25 August 2026 examines how European postal administrations marked the bicentennial of United States independence in 1976. Written by Michael Burzan o...

Why it matters

The comparative survey brings several countries’ 1976 bicentennial issues into one historical frame and offers collectors a practical route into a broad transatlantic thematic field.

Updated22 Oct'26News date25 Aug'26Country🌐 Multiple countries
Yogi Adityanath at the Raebareli commemoration on 24 August 2026; photograph does not show a readable special cover.🇮🇳 India

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath released a Department of Posts special cover commemorating Rana Beni Madhav Baksh Singh at Raebareli on 24 August 2026. The release took place during th...

Why it matters

The report identifies a Department of Posts cover linked to a precisely dated local commemoration of an 1857 leader.

Updated27 Oct'26News date24 Aug'26Event24 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India
Two early Bulgarian postage stamps issued in 1879🇧🇬 Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has opened an electronic catalogue covering the country’s postage stamps from 1879 to the present. The Bulgarian News Agency reported the launch ...

Why it matters

A free official catalogue with thousands of images and technical records creates a significant new identification and research resource for Bulgarian philately.

Updated25 Aug'26News date24 Aug'26Country🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Ukrposhta Herald of Goodness sheet from the We Are Waiting stamp issue🇺🇦 Ukraine

Ukraine introduced the two-stamp issue “We Are Waiting!” on Independence Day, 24 August 2026, in honour of Ukrainian prisoners of war, people missing under special circumstances and their families....

Why it matters

The paired issue combines a publicly voted design process, precisely documented philatelic products and nationwide special cancellations around a major subject in contemporary Ukrainian postal history.

Updated19 Oct'26News date24 Aug'26Event24 Aug'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
Polish Fruits of Our Orchards stamps featuring raspberry, blackcurrant and gooseberry🇵🇱 Poland

Poczta Polska placed its 2026 “Fruits of Our Orchards” issue into circulation on 24 August, presenting three fruit varieties associated with Polish cultivation. The stamps feature the Polka raspber...

Why it matters

The official release supplies the fruit varieties, sheet format, denomination class, printing method, paper, dimensions and print quantity needed to identify the issue accurately.

Updated19 Oct'26News date24 Aug'26Event24 Aug'26Country🇵🇱 Poland
United States Postal Service pane featuring five Linda McCartney photographic stamp designs🇺🇸 United States

The United States Postal Service announced on 24 August 2026 that a pane of stamps featuring photographs by Linda McCartney will be issued at a first-day ceremony in New York on 25 September. The c...

Why it matters

The announcement confirms a five-design photographic pane, its designer, launch date and public ceremony venue, making it a substantial addition to the 2026 United States programme.

Updated25 Aug'26News date24 Aug'26Event25 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Philately News🇮🇳 India

Rainbow Stamp Club published an India-focused results note on 23 August 2026 following the Queensland Stamp & Coin Show in Brisbane, Australia. The show ran from 13 to 16 August, and the report nam...

Why it matters

The report records seven Indian names connected with a recent Australian philatelic exhibition and provides a lead for documenting India’s overseas competitive participation.

Updated25 Aug'26News date23 Aug'26Event13 Aug'26–16 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India
Philately News🇶🇦 Qatar

The Qatar Philatelic and Numismatic Center announced through Qatar News Agency on 23 August 2026 that it will participate in the Asian Stamp Exhibition in Bandung, Indonesia, from 27 to 31 August. ...

Why it matters

Five substantial competitive exhibits bring Qatar and wider Gulf postal history to a FIAP exhibition and document the centre’s active role in organized Asian philately.

Updated25 Aug'26News date23 Aug'26Event27 Aug'26–31 Aug'26Country🇶🇦 Qatar
Philately News🇯🇴 Jordan

Jordan Post announced on 23 August 2026 that it is releasing a commemorative postcard for the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Mohammad. The 2026 issue is priced at JD1.40 and becomes available ...

Why it matters

The official announcement establishes the format, JD1.40 value and first availability date of a new Jordanian religious commemorative postal item.

Updated25 Aug'26News date23 Aug'26Event24 Aug'26Country🇯🇴 Jordan
Ten yellow Chile $500 stamps featuring the 31 Minutos logo and television characters.🇨🇱 Chile

CorreosChile’s 31 Minutos issue comprises ten designs released on 22 August 2026. The official artwork presents the programme’s logo and characters against bright yellow backgrounds, including Tuli...

Why it matters

The ten-design issue connects a locally produced television programme with postal use and youth participation.

Updated2 Nov'26News date22 Aug'26Event22 Aug'26Country🇨🇱 Chile
Philately News🇺🇦 Ukraine

The Donetsk Regional State Administration and Ukrposhta have presented a new philatelic project titled “Code of Donetsk Region,” created for the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. The regi...

Why it matters

The officially documented project joins regional art and postal history, and records a special cancellation whose first impression entered the Donetsk Regional Art Museum collection.

Updated22 Oct'26News date22 Aug'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
Philately News🇺🇦 Ukraine

Lanivtsi City Council announced on 22 August 2026 that a philatelic exhibition marking the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence will take place on Monday, 24 August. The exhibition is schedul...

Why it matters

The official announcement provides an actionable date and venue for a public display connecting philately with the 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence.

Updated22 Oct'26News date22 Aug'26Event24 Aug'26Country🇺🇦 Ukraine
Philately News🇺🇸 United States

The United States Postal Service issued a stamp honouring author Sarah Orne Jewett on 21 August 2026 in South Berwick, Maine, where she spent most of her life. The release is the 35th stamp in the ...

Why it matters

The issue adds the 35th entry to the Literary Arts series and provides a new nondenominated three-ounce-rate stamp with documented design and first-day information.

Updated22 Oct'26News date21 Aug'26Event21 Aug'26Country🇺🇸 United States
Philately News🇺🇸 United States

The United States Postal Service announced on 21 August 2026 that its latest Kwanzaa stamp will be issued on 23 September at a public first-day ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia. The event is scheduled...

Why it matters

The announcement confirms the public ceremony, venue and design context for the eleventh United States Kwanzaa stamp.

Updated22 Oct'26News date21 Aug'26Event23 Sep'26Country🇺🇸 United States