Bat’s Private Post issues Happy New Year souvenir sheet

I wrote last week about how Rocking Horse Farm Local Post and Purgatory Post had issued the last couple of new local post stamps in 2024, but it turns out I was wrong. While those two operations released some of the last local post stamps for the past calendar year, Beverly Hills-based Bat’s Private Post slipped in under the wire with a souvenir sheet released December 31. The theme was “Happy New Year.”

The souvenir sheet contains six stamps ranging in value from 10¢ to $3. I suppose the fireworks stamp is “happy” (so long as you’re not a dog or a horse), but “happy new year” carries with it a darker undertone for the other stamps because there’s some truly horrible stuff going on in the world. And this souvenir sheet was issued before the New Orleans terror attack or the California wildfires!

At any rate, Bat’s probably wins the last local post stamp of 2024 award; there certainly can’t be any released any later than December 31!

Published 2025-01-12