Postage stamps for Christmas
Christmas stamps
Christmas postage stamps have been published by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1961. Practically everyone uses them during the vacation season, especially on Christmas card enevlopes. Although the post office does offer some choices every year, having somewhere around a dozen unique plans, a new revolution in Christmas stamps has passed over the past few years. The thought may overcome some people because, although it sounds like fun, they don’t know where to start. Don’t worry if that uses to you! Professional decorators have created beautiful Christmas stamps that you can use as they are or individualise in any way you like. Canada published a stamp with the Mercator map “Christmas 1898″ written. Post offices in England and the Netherlands also released stamps with Christmas-related themes. In the US, postcard artist Ellen H. Clapsaddle projected Christmas themes for stamps. However, none were unique Christmas issues. The first postage stamp for Christmas was released in 1937 in Austria: the Rose and Signs of the Zodiac stamp.
The first Christmas stamp
The first authorized US Christmas stamp was established in 1962. This year, the US Post Office will publish more than 4 billion Christmas postage stamps. They can even be purchased at some ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) applying a bank card: 18 stamps are published out on a sheet the size of a $1 bill.
Christmas seals
The Christmas stamp on your Christmas card may be followed by a Christmas stamp, an idea considered by a Danish postal clerk and best published by Denmark in 1904 to produce money for tuberculosis. In the same year, Sweden and Iceland pursued with their versions later in the same year. In 1907, American Red Cross worker Emily Bissell pursued the Danish Christmas stamp success with a simple red and white seal to raise money to save her local TB sanatorium. It was so successful that in 1908 the American Red Cross ran the campaign national wide. Since 1973, the Christmas seal campaign has been prepared by the American Lung Association.
