Part of the continuing Black History Month series, is a stamp honouring Mary Ann Shadd. An abolitionist, educator, newspaper publisher and lawyer, Shadd broke boundaries throughout her life as she fought for the rights of Black people and women.
Thank you for sharing pictures of the new 2024 Slovenian stamps. What I really like from Slovenian stamps except their high aesthetic value is how well organized is the annual program. I am really looking forward to the three Famous Persons stamps. I am a great fan of this theme and Slovenia is doing it great.
Although beautiful, some Slovenian stamps do indeed have slightly too high value to be useful in postcard exchange (unless swapping them really a lot in envelope) … or their values are unpractical and require several additional stamps, meaning less available space for writing.
Buying lower valued stamps can also be complicated - not because they would not exists, but because only bigger post offices have them.
Some post office personnel is also not keen on requests for commemorative stamps (bigger and more colorful), but they prefer to sell smaller, self-adhesive definitive stamps.
A bit of an aside - In 2022 these were released that I loved. I was fortunate enough to receive the Monument Valley stamp in a package (non-postcrossing related)
Turns out this new stamp was only announced 18th, when first day of the Palestine stamp being publically for sale. I completely missed the stamps because I didn’t expect new stamps in 2 days but I myself will go soon to see if they still have any stock left.
Designs are not available yet, but the topics for Royal Mail’s 2024 stamp program in the UK were recently announced-
1 February- Weather forecasting
20 February- Viking Britain.
12 March- the age of the dinosaurs
16 April- Royal Mail will have an issue to mark 100 years of commemorative stamps
16 May- Peppa Pig
6 June- Dogs
20 June- an issue to honor the 60th anniversary of the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team.
25 July- Dungeons & Dragons
13 August- Tower of London
3 September- Porridge (Probably the tv show, not the food)
26 September- Spiders
17 October- The Who
5 November- Christmas issue
30 November- Honoring the 150th Anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth
A terrible piece of news: In 2024 only 5 new stamps here and the first one until June 5th, the only good thing is: this year there will be 11 rare postmarks.
When the first stamp i s available we will show it here. Just information today, we hope no one complains.