Canada Post's 2015 Issue - Year Of The Ram

Copied from the RCPS website (without permission) as there's nothing on Canada Post's website.

First-class Postal Rates
Rates effective March 31, 2014 (no rate change expected in 2015): •Domestic: 85c
•USA: $1.20
•International: $2.50

Jan 8: Lunar New Year: Year of the Ram (2 stamps)
#9702;P (85c) (pane of 25)
#9702;$2.50 (booklet of 6)
#9702;$2.50 souvenir sheet
#9702;$2.50 Ram + $1.85 Horse souvenir sheet
#9702;uncut press sheet
#9702;Prepaid Postcards (1 of each design @ $2.50 each)

The Canada Post 2015 Year of the Ram stamp designs (poor images) are documented here (about 1/4 of the way down the page):

http://commonwealthstampsopinion.bl...s-issue.html

Not only the images are poor. Unless they are not showing the issue well this is the worst Chinese New year issue yet.

The Year of the Ram stamps are up on the Canada Post site.
Other releases for 2015 (unofficial of course!) found during my rummaging around web sites on Sunday:
Jan - Year of the Ram, 200th Ann of the Birth of Sir John A MacDonald
Feb - 50th Ann of the Canadian Flag, Responsible Pet Ownership
Mar - Pansies
Apr - Canadian Photographs III
May - 100th Ann of "In Flanders Fields", UNESCO Sites II, Dinosaurs (and very old things)
Jun - FIFA Women's Cup, Weather Extremes
Sep - next issue for the Foundation, Haunted Canada II, NHL Heroes
Oct - Madonna and Child, Deck the Halls

I am completely, totally, thoroughly OVER Chinese New Year Stamps.

No offense intended to those who collect, but I can think of so many other subjects that I'd rather see on stamps.

Back in August 2014, Linn's Stamp News offered a list that pretty much is in line with what was posted earlier in this thread:

http://www.linns.com/news/internati...IFA-Womenand

Will we see a Canada Junior Hockey Gold medal stamp tomorrow?

Is there any dought...???.....

From the Canada Post web site

$21.25 Permanent 85 cent (pane of 25)




$15.00 (booklet of 6)


$2.50 Ram + $1.85 Horse souvenir sheet
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$2.50 souvenir sheet


uncut press sheet

Kirk - Canada is officially - and unofficially looking to the East and the West. Our communities are now that of the Euro dollar and Asia-Pacific. That's why we continue the New year series and why many issues in the last few years have linked to Europe.

Kirk I agree with you 1000%.

I could barely stomach the first annual Chinese New Year series
but this second rehash is just ridiculous.
In Canada Post's own annual stamp surveys these Chinese New Year
labels where voted the least necessary stamps issued.
So why continue with them a second time around?

It appears like a total pandering to one ethnic group whether
for votes or trade with the mother country?

Either way Canada is not New China, not yet anyway.

Linn's Stamp News just got around to reporting on this issue today:

http://linns.com/news/international...-with-stamps

I also agree with Kirk and others re Chinese new year.
Maybe someday Canadians will get tired of cow-towing to whatever Canada Post thinks we should be bowing to on our stamps/stickers.
Does China issue stamps to recognize Canada Day?
IMO, the 2015 projected line-up has only a few worthy examples.
They are: the flag anniversary, Sir John A., In Flanders Fields (again), and Provincial birds.
2nd choices are: Pets, Photographs, FIFA, weather and Christmas (ooops, that probably should be Politically Correct "Holiday").
The rest don't deserve even a bronze.
Sorry; but, a guy who makes millions for playing hockey doesn't rate "hero" status when real heroes go unrecognized.
As for the junior hockey win stamp, CP says it needs three years advance notice before releasing a stamp. But, the CP fortune-tellers probably knew three years ago that Canada would win....just like at the 2010 Olympics.
The post Office has been losing big bucks for years despite making collectors go broke from trying to keep up with the ridiculous issues every year, raising rates and reducing services.
Maybe they'll someday admit that mismanagement has its own rewards.

Lets bring Canada Post back to printing Canadian stamps.

Over 2 million Canadians celebrate the "Chinese" New Year - those of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Japanese, Cambodian, Taiwanese, and Laotian origins.
Almost half (43%) of Metro Vancouver residents have an Asian heritage, which is a much higher proportion than any other major city outside the continent of Asia.

And the other 30 million Canadians who get ONE stamp on say Canada day...

Dont get me wrong, it is a good thing to identify any group, any event.