Celebrity Christmas: Christmas stamps

<span class="zemanta-img separator" sizcache="7478" sizset="0" style="clear: right;"><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" sizcache="7478" sizset="1" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20021123_12sant_Latvia_Postage_Stamp.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" sizcache="7132" sizset="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody sizcache="7132" sizset="1"><tr sizcache="7132" sizset="1"><td sizcache="7132" sizset="1" style="text-align: center;"><div sizcache="7132" sizset="1"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs01vpnQbmiTdpUGHp-VVqaJQmZQrFGPlgonKA9D0Z1zx98tLiXl0Qin7MgHIZw3BLdUrpbKjJ8sLdGgYvwHEODRxf067DeiO9zjn_arIDj9eg12O7w-EtoeaIRxODHum-1vqjMWChZupd/s1600/170px-Stamp_CA_1973_8c_Xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" sizcache="7132" sizset="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="232" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP0QbIsrmnzAgWeJHXBtD247JHAwspFNE4iDX8jxDxPH2h-Ng65s0ggP66w8QmcKScsVLA-l2R_yokQZeOT4X8RHZ_J9ew_8ba4d0oTregL2k2ADDzIOzVoOUny-8OzDPMNjDUuOgvpR0/s320/Stamp_HU_1943_20f_Xmas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hungarian nativity stamp, 1943</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" sizcache="7132" sizset="11" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody sizcache="7132" sizset="11"><tr sizcache="7132" sizset="11"><td sizcache="7132" sizset="11" style="text-align: center;"><div sizcache="7132" sizset="11"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGlsRW5mGuxQL7SsKUQUXd-vyYLqq_lgzaL_ojAHtVgkT4YnXTDYdUAlVW4Taztffpb1LV1aY4H-ncopZojoGrHSSiegQsqsyrQepVSVxsxNYLXeFPZu717Og7hOvR-yka2UXiLPINPkP/s1600/Stamp_UK_1983_28p_Xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" sizcache="7132" sizset="11" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRGlsRW5mGuxQL7SsKUQUXd-vyYLqq_lgzaL_ojAHtVgkT4YnXTDYdUAlVW4Taztffpb1LV1aY4H-ncopZojoGrHSSiegQsqsyrQepVSVxsxNYLXeFPZu717Og7hOvR-yka2UXiLPINPkP/s320/Stamp_UK_1983_28p_Xmas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UK Christmas stamp from a 1983 set of five.</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>It is not unusual to see leftover stamps appear on regular mail during the first months of the new year, Except in Australia where Christmas stamps are only valid during the holiday season and cannot be used for regular mail, but only Christmas cards. This is because the Australian Christmas stamp is valued 5c lower than regular postage stamps. 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