Name: 2020 US Christmas Holiday Delights Forever Postage Stamps
SKU: 004-SDXX
Price: 29.99 USD
Availability: InStock
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WASHINGTON, DC Celebrate the holiday season with Holiday Delights, a new stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Inspired by folk art but with a modern graphic vibe, these charming designs will add a touch of whimsy to your holiday mailings.

Illustrator Kirsten Ulve used a traditional palette of red, green and white, and channeled her love of Christmas, vintage ornaments and Scandinavian folk art to create unique digital illustrations of four holiday icons: a prancing reindeer with antlers; an ornament tied with a bow and ready to hang; a tree topped with a star; and a stocking holding a teddy bear and a sprig of holly. Forever and USA appear along the stamps edge. Art director Antonio Alcal was the stamp designer.

Holiday Delights will be available nationwide Sept 24. A virtual dedication ceremony will be posted on the Postal Services Facebook and Twitter pages.

German immigrants brought the tradition of the indoor decorated tree to America. Early on, decorations included candles and homemade ornaments, said Secretary of the Board of Governors Michael J. Elston, dedicating official for the Postal Service. With these stamps, the Postal Service is capturing the vintage spirit of Christmas in hopes they will convey the joy of the season and bring to mind happy memories of Christmases past.

Once the tradition of decorating trees caught on, in the 1890s, Woolworths five-and-dime stores began to import handblown ornaments. By the mid-20th century, Americans were buying hundreds of thousands of ornaments each Christmas.

The origin of hanging stockings is lost in myth, but according to legend, St. Nicholas heard of a widower who could not pay his daughters dowries. St. Nick dropped gold coins down the mans chimney, and they landed in the girls stockings hung by the fireplace to dry.

Although there is no certainty about how reindeer originally came to be associated with the holiday, it could be that their natural habitat in northernmost Europe and North America fits perfectly with the story of Santas secret North Pole workshop.

The dedication location is connected with Christmas: Frankenmuth. It is the home of Bronners, the largest Christmas store in the world, and is a Bavarian-rooted town with lots of holiday-related activities.

News of the stamp is being shared with hashtags#HolidayDelightsStampand#HolidayStamps.

Holiday Delights is being issued as a Forever stamp in booklets of 20. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.

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General Questions

A: We legally acquire our postage stamps from businesses and the general public; from leftover business mailings and company liquidations, to wedding invitations and stamp collections. Our process, product acquisition, and transactions are legally backed by our all-star legal team. All transactions are in compliance with the laws of the United States of America.

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Ordering

A: Yes, these are Forever Stamps so they will always be equal to the value of one ounce, first-class letter in the U.S. The stamps can be used to mail a letter, or towards the total postage cost of any US-PS shipment, or can be saved as a collectible.

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