On December 14, 2019, Kyrgyzstan issued a stamp commemorating the 150th Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. A FDC and maxi card was also issued. The two latter were planned with 100 copies each, but the postal authorities decided eventually to increase to 500 each. In communication with a ordering buyer the Kyrgyzstan Post wrote of a “withdrawal”. But the context here was that all copies of stamps, FDCs and maxi cards were sold out quickly and the withdrawal was merely telling that the sale had to be stopped due to exhausted stocks.

Therefore the withdrawal was not in relation to a problem with the issue, a fact which was misinterpreted. An additional aspect to this issue is, that the FDCs and maxi cards have a edition of 100 printed on them, rather than the 500 eventually delivered and sold, a mistake of the printing house.