Twenty twenty-five has not shaped out to be the philatelic-heavy year I imagined twelve months ago. For one thing, I all but abandoned my coverage (or even awareness) of new stamp issues. I had planned to take a year-long long at my birthyear of 1965 but only recently got that off the drawing board and onto the Web. Another idea was to examine the contents of my two volumes of the Scott International Stamp Album (“Big Blue” Parts I and II) but got bogged down with a history of collectors, albums and catalogs. The latter might actually see the light of day at some point. . .
Philately sometimes comes and goes as real life intrudes. Indeed it has in my case. Fortunately, the hobby never really falls on the back-burner for long and inspiration can come in unexpected forms. Mine came, perhaps, through frustration at not being able to order the USPS 2025 Stamp Yearbook as they no longer ship internationally! (When did that happen?) Not long after, my news feeds were full of commentary about the 2026 U.S. stamp program. That spurred me to finally start my series on 1965-cancelled covers and put together a calendar page listing the 2026 U.S. stamps, writing a brief article to accompany it.
Just today, I received an email from Tusass Greenland Filatelia listing several issues they are releasing today, November 7, 2025. While the subject matter of each interested me (Everyday Heroes, International Inuit Day, and Snowy Owls), it was the pair of Christmas stamps that inspired me to write this article. In years past, I have blogged quite a bit about the Yuletide topical but that has faded since COVID and the fighting in Ukraine. I blogged about them quite a lot in 2022 but there not at all in 2023; 2024 saw only two Christmas stamp articles.
So, today’s post about the new Christmas stamps from Greenland serves two purposes — returning (in a small way) to both New Issues posts and showcasing holiday stamps. In this case, I will let the images of the stamps speak for themselves: two designs released today in both sheet and booklet formats, plus a nice first day cover showing the pair (other variations are available, too). Rather than trying to transcribe the details, I lead off with screenshots of the new issue of Greenland Collector (Vol. 30 No. 4); you can read the entire issue online.
The issuance of new stamps from Nordic countries is rapidly shrinking. We lost Iceland as a stamp-issuing entity a few years ago and PostNord has announced that Denmark will see its last letter delivery at the end of 2025. I hope Greenland continues for a few more years at least. It has long been one of my favorite to collect.
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