The Sept. 10 article, “Is the Postal Service Declaring War on Religion?” is incorrect and misleads readers into thinking Post Offices will not be offering religious-themed holiday stamps this year. Nothing could be further from the truth. Allow me to set the record straight.
We have more than a half billion religious-themed holiday stamps in inventory and based on prior year’s purchases, that’s more than twice sold during a typical Holiday season.
Our decision to print select holiday-themed stamps every other year is a business decision based on supply and demand while serving the needs of our customers. Moreover, we have found that the popularity of Holiday Forever stamps — which are good for mailing a one ounce letter anytime in the future regardless of price changes — result in more stamps purchased at a time.
Evidently the story idea about the “Postal Service Declaring a War on Religion” began when your reporter visited a Post Office and found that it had no religious-themed stamps available. Postmasters have the ability to order holiday stamps, but as most customers wait until after Thanksgiving to mail their greeting cards, Postmasters typically order these stamps in late September or early October.
Customers can purchase stamps at Post Offices or online at usps.com/shop. Religious-themed Forever holiday stamps available this year include: Christmas Magi; Eid; Hanukkah; Holy Family; Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael; and, Virgin and Child by Jan Gosseart. Secular Forever stamps include: A Charlie Brown Christmas (available Oct. 1); Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer; Geometric Snowflakes (available Oct. 23); Winter Fun; Global Holiday: Silver Bells Wreath; Global Holiday: and Evergreen Wreath.
The Postal Service has a long standing history of celebrating the religions of the world on postage stamps.
Every thing in America must have god involved, or it’s evil! Enough already. Remember, the words ” under god” was added to our pledge of allegiance in 1954 for some patriotic reason. To day one can’t even think unless you say the word god. Religion belongs in it’s proper place!
What a crock!
we all know the federal government religion is atheism…..proved that with the sodomite light show at the white house.
Nice spirit of Christian love and acceptance there!
It’s because the Christian religion is one of evil, just like the Jewish religion and the Muslim religion.
The Daily Caller? Consider the source!! Good grief, the mythical “war on Xmas” sure is starting early this year.
The USPS ares Hippocrates. It not the holidays,Hanukkah, eid, halloween, or any other ridiculous PC moniker you want to put on it. It always was and still is always will be Christmas Jesus Christ’s birthday. Nothing else. Wary in the last century when Chritsmas became more commeriized when coke and Santa Claus poster stranger appearing across America. The Jewish people got jelous and wrongly row aged Hanukkah the festable of lights like a High holiday which it never is or was. Nobody made a big deal about it before. And Eid what the heck is that. Ramada is in September. I don’t think th PO should sell stamps honoring the SO*s who created the murdering of 3000 innocent Americans.? Oh remember the year you did not sell the Maddona and Child, that went over big huh??
No the PO did not declare war on religion, just the Christian/ Catholic religions.
You make me sick for also destroying the Post office
The religious stamps always have Christmas printed on them. The Post Office has not declared war on any religion. You can go on their website right now and order any one of four religious stamps (unsold inventory from prior years) and if they aren’t available at your local post office, have the manager/postmaster order them, they are supposed to have them available.
Yes, Hanukah has been promoted from a minor holiday to be “Jewish Christmas” in order to further feed the retail frenzy. And I don’t think anyone considers Kwanzaa a religious holiday though it does honor family values and heritage.
I think you meant Ramadan, rather than the hotel chain, although the misspelling may have been deliberate. There are actually two Eid feasts, Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha honoring the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac. Since both holidays occur on the Islamic calendar, they are at different times each year according to the Western calendar, with Eid al-Fitr in July and Eid al-Adha in September this year.
I am secure enough in my Christian faith that I don’t need a stamp to validate it. I forgive others for their failings and those of their religions and pray for this country and all its citizens, whatever their creed.
Hippocrates? He was a philosopher, idiot. Maybe you need some reading lessons. You must have meant “hypocrite”. And the Islam holiday is Ramadan, not Ramada.
You Christians are certainly a bright bunch. You think you’re so persecuted if anybody dares disagree with you or refuses to let you bully them and try to force them to be brainwashed into your cult. War on Christmas and Christians, my ass. People are finally getting sick of you Christians trying to take over everything including schools and the government and destroy the 1st Amendment. You do want you want with your personal beliefs, but you have absolutely no right to impose it on those who don’t want to hear it. I don’t care what your Bible tells you to do.
And look at these words you misspell: “Chritsmas”, “jelous”, “commerlized”? Get your spell check back on and learn how to read, and maybe somebody might take your argument a bit more seriously than laughing at you.