Holiday Delights Stamps
Description
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 stamp’s edge. Art director Antonio Alcalá was the Holiday Delights Stamps designer.
🎄 Holiday Delights Forever Stamps – Folk Art Charm for the Season
The Holiday Delights Stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2020 to celebrate the joy and traditions of Christmas with a modern graphic twist inspired by folk art.
Key Features:
- 📅 Issue Year: 2020
- 💵 Value: Forever (First-Class Mail, 1 oz.) – valid regardless of future postage increases
- 🎨 Designs: A set of four different stamps, each featuring a festive holiday icon:
- A prancing reindeer with antlers
- A Christmas ornament tied with a bow
- A tree topped with a star
- A stocking holding a teddy bear and holly sprig
- 👩🎨 Illustrator: Kirsten Ulve (digital illustrations inspired by Scandinavian folk art and vintage ornaments)
- 👨🎨 Art Director: Antonio Alcalá
- 📦 Format (Store Listing):
- 5 books of 20 = 100 stamps per pack
- Price: $78.00 → discounted to $69.00
- 🖨️ Printing: Offset lithography
Historical & Cultural Notes
- German immigrants introduced the tradition of decorated indoor Christmas trees to America in the 1800s.
- Woolworth’s five-and-dime stores began importing handblown ornaments in the 1890s, fueling widespread holiday decorating.
- Stockings trace back to the legend of St. Nicholas dropping gold coins down a chimney, which landed in stockings hung to dry.
- Reindeer became associated with Christmas through northern European folklore and Santa’s North Pole mythology.
Suitable Occasions
- 🎄 Holiday cards & letters – festive imagery perfect for Christmas mailings.
- 🎁 Gift packages – adds charm to seasonal parcels.
- 🏫 Community mailings – schools, churches, and charities can use them for seasonal outreach.
- ✨ Collectors – four unique designs make this issue especially appealing.
🌟 Symbolism & Appeal
The Holiday Delights Stamps combine nostalgia with modern design, evoking cherished traditions while adding whimsy to holiday correspondence. They’re both practical for mailing and delightful for collecting.
Stamp Background
“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 officially to the Postal Service. “With a stamp, 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, Woolworth’s 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 man’s 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 Santa’s secret North Pole workshop.
The dedication location is connected with Christmas: Frankenmuth. It is the home of Bronner’s, the largest Christmas store in the world, and is a Bavarian-rooted town with lots of holiday-related activities.
Holiday Delights Stamps is being issued as a Forever stamp in booklets of 20. Forever stamp will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Shipping Info
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