SingPost launches national philately website and public stamp exhibition

Singapore Post launched what it calls Singapore’s first comprehensive national philately website on 9 October 2026, World Post Day. The online resource brings the country’s national stamp issues since independence in 1966 into a single digital archive. SingPost says the portal combines the stamp collection with a calendar of past and forthcoming philatelic-community events, explanatory articles and interviews with designers responsible for notable Singapore issues. The material is freely available to collectors, researchers, educators and the public, giving Singapore’s modern stamp record a dedicated national access point rather than leaving it dispersed across product pages and older announcements.

The launch forms the heritage component of a broader World Post Day programme. SingPost presented the site alongside the completed islandwide rollout of SingPost@MyBlock and the public trial of its Digital Stamp for domestic mail. By the end of September, Return Mail slots at more than 20,000 residential letterbox nests had been enabled as local posting points where available. The Digital Stamp trial began on 8 October and lets customers buy a postage code in the SingPost app and write it on an envelope. SingPost placed these services together to show two sides of the postal network: preserving six decades of stamp design while changing how present-day letters are franked and deposited.

The public-facing centrepiece is “Tiny Windows into Singapore,” a free walk-through stamp-album exhibition at the SingPost Centre atrium, 10 Eunos Road 8. It runs from 8 to 11 October 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Six sections—Postal Journey, Imprints of Our Past, Birth of a Nation, City in a Garden, Our Little Red Dot and The Jewel Box—use stamps to trace early trades and streets, housing milestones, public campaigns and biodiversity. The Jewel Box features the recently launched “Then & Now” lenticular stamps.

Collectors can obtain an event cachet and a different thematic datestamp each day. The programme also includes postcard writing, a self-service kiosk, posting box, stamp rally, philatelic retail and artist pop-ups. Products include the two S$10 “Then & Now” lenticular stamps and folder, postcards, blank first-day-cover envelopes, a World Post Day MyStamp set, souvenir cover and postage label. The label is available at POPDrop at the General Post Office and at the atrium kiosk.

Four scheduled talks extend the programme beyond product promotion. On 10 October, Masya S. Ong is due to discuss early Singapore economic history through pirates, planters and pioneers, followed by Gabriel Lim on the COVID-19 period through philately. On 11 October, Andrew Teo is scheduled to speak on Singapore postal slogans and Eddie Yong on modern post-office transactions. Each session is limited to 40 people on a first-come basis and is held at The Stamping Ground on level five of SingPost Centre. The subjects connect stamp collecting with economic, social and operational postal history.

The website is the durable part of the announcement. It establishes a structured reference for issues from 1966 onward and adds context such as designer interviews and event records. The exhibition, cachets and daily datestamps provide time-limited physical counterparts. Event covers or postcards carrying the dated markings can document the launch, while the archive supports attribution and chronology. The official publication gives only the calendar date, not an exact release time, but identifies 9 October as the launch date.