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A good time to stock up on seasonal stamps

December 10, 2024

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The Postal Service offers a variety of seasonal stamps for this year’s holidays. Here’s a look at 12 of them available at usps.com and many Post Offices:

• Christmas Madonna and Child. This 2024 stamp features an oil painting from the workshop of the 17th century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi, known as “Sassoferrato.”

• HolidayJoy. These four 2024 stamps show folk-art inspired images of colorful flowers and Christmas ornaments.

• Hanukkah. This 2024 stamp features an image of a hanukkiah, the nine-branch candelabra used during the holiday.

• Kwanzaa. This 2024 stamp shows a male drummer and two female dancers and highlights the colors of the Pan-African flag.

• Winter Whimsy. These 2024 stamps showcase four different white, lacy, symmetrical graphic forms inspired by snowflakes.

• Winter Woodland Animals. These four stamps from 2023 feature deer, rabbits, owls and foxes.

• Snow Globes. These four 2023 stamps depict icons of the holiday season among flakes of snow, under a dome of glass.

• Hanukkah. The 2023 version of this annual stamp features an abstract image of a hanukkiah.

• Kwanzaa. An image of a girl and boy facing a kinara — a seven-stem candelabra that represents the holiday’s seven founding principles — graces the 2023 version of this annual stamp.

• Virgin and Child. This stamp from 2022 features a painting of the Virgin Mary gazing downward at the infant Christ by an unidentified Florentine artist known as the Master of the Scandicci Lamentation.

• Holiday Elves. This block of four stamps from 2022 depicts Santa’s helpers cheerfully working on an assembly line containing toys and candy.

• Poinsettia. This global Forever stamp from 2018 features a photo of a poinsettia that is taken from above and shows green leaves, red bracts and yellow flowers.

Additionally, a variety of stamp-related postal products are available at usps.com.

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