Botswana: catalog help?

Sorry, I may have misunderstood your question. 2018 Scott lists an additional 4 commemorative sets after that definitive set. The last listing in 2018 Scott was issued 20Nov2015. I'm certain there are later issues that Scott has not assigned catalog numbers yet. Scott has gotten a lot slower on many new issue listings in terms of both speed and the country rotation they go through. I'm pretty certain they are giving even more priority to the major collecting areas. They've been doing that with their catalog listings for the past 2 decades.

I stand corrected on my comment regarding Scott updating new issues. I perused all the Linn's Stamp News new issue listings for all of 2016-2017 as I haven't looked at them in a long time. Linn's has done an admirable effort to keep up in 2017. While there were absolutely no Botswana updates for all of 2016, there are 5 monthly stamp listing updates in 2017!!! There is a noticeable increase in the overall new issues listings in 2017. Kudos to Scott for a long-overdue return to the basics!

Something just came up, but I'll list the Linn's issue and page number for all 5 updates. mourningdoves, if you don't have those Linn's issues and need the updates, let me know. Meanwhile, check your email.

Well, that was my fault. I'd gone through the 2014-2016 Linn's, and was going to peruse the 2017 issues before asking about this, but I had a few free minutes this afternoon and asked.

The Botswana postal authorities appear to have a blithe attitude about informing the world of their new issues. I know Scott can fall woefully behind on many new issues - I think platoons of interns periodically get crushed under piles of souvenir sheets from Moçambique and they have to blow a few weeks training new ones - but in this case there has been an odd pattern to the order some of these get listed, as if Botswana Post sends formal notices to the UPU and the catalogs except when they don't. I wonder if a few issues from 2011-2014 still haven't been detected.

Scott keeps up very well on Serbia and all the Bosnia and Herzegovina divisions, for instance (except - glaringly - the postal tax stamps), but they got like two years behind on Bulgaria. It may be a question of resources at Scott, but I find it hard to believe that Serbia and B&H are that much more popular amongst collectors than Bulgaria.

Thanks for the scans! It looks like I'll join the rest of eastern Connecticut in not going anywhere for a while, so I can cook up a few new tags for my pages.