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PostNL issued Experience Nature – Birds of Saba on 5 January as a sheet of ten different denomination-1 stamps. The birds include the red-billed tropicbird, bananaquit, brown pelican, osprey and An...

POST Luxembourg listed a Crown philatelic cancellation dated 23 January. The service applies to valid Luxembourg postage stamps and postal cards submitted under its cancellation rules. The publish...

Jersey Post released its Year of the Horse issue on 27 January. Wang Huming designed the stamp and miniature sheet using visual ideas from traditional Chinese paper cutting. Cartor Security Printe...

Hongkong Post released its Year of the Horse special stamps and associated products on 5 January. The programme included four stamps, two sheetlets, a laser-cut paper-art sheetlet and a gold-and-si...

Cyprus issued a commemorative stamp on 7 January for its 2026 Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The design uses the presidency logo, whose geometry is inspired by traditional Lefkara...

The United Nations Postal Administration issued a pane of ten $1.70 stamps on 12 January to commemorate 80 years of the Journal of the United Nations. The Journal began alongside the first United N...

Poczta Polska placed a stamp for the 34th Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity into circulation on 25 January. The 4.90-złoty issue was designed by Jerzy Owsiak and Barbara Kasperek a...

UNPA released a pane of ten Year of the Horse stamps on 16 January for use at its New York headquarters post office. The $1.70 stamps depict a running horse in alternating directions and draw inspi...

The Isle of Man Post Office issued four Year of the Horse stamps on 20 January using artwork by engraver and stamp artist Martin Mörck. The four denominations appear as a horizontal se-tenant strip...

Romfilatelia and Romanian Post introduced The Seasons in the Light of Stained Glass: Sever Frențiu on 28 January. Four denominations reproduce works from the stained-glass collection held by the Ad...

The West Bengal Circle of the Department of Posts released a special philatelic cover for Gangasagar Mela 2026 in January. The issue marked the annual pilgrimage at the meeting of the Ganga and the...

Australia Post opened its 2026 stamp programme on 6 January with a Lunar New Year issue celebrating the Year of the Horse. Designed by Chrissy Lau, the stamps use red and gold, colours strongly ass...

Australia Post released a separate Christmas Island Lunar New Year miniature sheet on 6 January, marking the Year of the Horse with imagery tied to the customs of the festival. The official product...

The United States Postal Service issued a 4-cent Angel's Trumpets stamp on 9 January in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The low-denomination definitive continues the floral sequence introduced in 2024 with 1-c...

Australia Post issued Regional Heritage Australia on 13 January, using significant nineteenth-century buildings to explore the architectural and civic history of regional towns. The subjects are Ba...

USPS released its 2026 Love stamps on 13 January, presenting four colourful scenes in which pairs of stylised birds encounter hearts in different forms. One pair examines branches carrying small wh...

Royal Mail released its first special-stamp issue of 2026 on 13 January, devoted to the television series Stranger Things. The programme comprises 14 stamps: ten character or scene stamps and a min...

The United States Postal Service issued two Muhammad Ali Forever stamp designs on 15 January in Louisville, Kentucky, honouring the three-time heavyweight champion in his home city. Both use a crop...

An Post issued a commemorative national-rate stamp on 15 January marking 100 years of broadcasting in Ireland. The design traces the transformation of broadcasting from radio, once a striking new p...

Royal Mail issued a Concorde special-stamp set on 21 January, making the supersonic airliner the subject of its second special issue of 2026. Concorde remains one of the most recognisable achieveme...