Mick’s Local Post, Bat’s Private Post issue new stamps on final day of 2025

I thought I had finished writing about local post stamps issued in 2025, but a few late entries in that category arrived in my post office box between last Wednesday and yesterday, all four of them issued December 31.

The first stamp is from Mick’s Local Post out of Portland, Oregon. The design features an image of Mick looking out over Lake Erie from the Ohio lakeshore, and it fits rather nicely into my landscapes collection. I’ve already added a space for it to my Canada/United States pages.

The other three stamps are from Beverly Hills-based Bat’s Private Post. One, an 88¢ stamp, pictures Assata Shakur (1947–2025), a political activist and revolutionary convicted of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973. Shakur escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba as a fugitive from the law.

Another 88¢ stamp pictures Dr. Jane Goodall (1934–2025), the English primatologist best known for her research on chimpanzees.

Finally, we have a non-denominated official stamp issued for use by the Bat’s Private Post Currency Board. The die cut stamp pictures Hermes.

According to a release included with the stamp, the Currency Board has created a series of small change “notes” in values ranging from ½¢ to $1 to facilitate mail order transaction payments. The notes can be used to pay for any Bat’s Private Post service.

Published 2026-01-08