• Sending Christmas cards to friends and family is a Christmas holiday tradition. Stamping your Christmas cards with Christmas holiday postage stamps is a great way to add a festive touch to each and every envelope. This Mahalo page collects links to websites offering a wide variety of holiday postage as well as insight into the history of Christmas postage stamps.

    1. Christmas is celebrated every year on December 25th
    2. In 2008, Christmas falls on a Thursday
    3. For Christians around the world December 25th marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
    4. Sending Christmas holiday cards to friends and family is a popular Christmas holiday tradition
    5. Christmas cards can be religiously-themed or secularly-themed
    6. Popular religious Christmas card designs include depictions of the nativity scene, three wise men bearing gifts, the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus
    7. Popular secular Christmas card designs include Santa Claus, elves, reindeer, snowflakes, snow globes, Christmas trees, Christmas presents, toy soldiers, penguins, candy canes, jingle bells
    8. Christmas stamps are popular for mailing cards and letters during the Christmas holiday season

  • A Brief History of Stamps

    Mailing letters used to be free for the sender with the postage being paid by the recipient. But after noticing how much money the Post Office lost on letters refused by recipients, English school teacher Rowland Hill suggested prepaid postal stamps in his pamphlet The Post Office Reform in 1837. Three years later the first stamps went on sale in Great Britain. These early stamps featured a likeness of Queen Victoria. The first U.S. Christmas stamps didn't appear until 1962. This year the U.S. Postal Service is expected to print over four million Christmas postage stamps for postal customers.Christmas World: Christmas Stamp History