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  • 2021-11-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Is USPS Issuing No New Christmas Stamps in 2021? (en)
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  • The War on Christmas continues through postage stamps, if claims sent to us by our Snopes readers are to be believed. We recently received a claim that the U.S. Postal Service is not issuing new Christmas stamps in 2021, ahead of the holidays, but that they do have stamps for Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. This is not the case. In October 2021, the Postal Service issued A Visit From St. Nick stamps ahead of Christmas. There are presently nine stamps for holidays available online, and the Diwali, Eid, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah stamps were all issued before 2021. A September 2021 announcement detailed the features of the St. Nick stamp: In October 2020, the Postal Service issued a more religious-themed stamp featuring a detail of 18th century Our Lady of Guápolo painting. This is not the first time we have received questions about the Postal Service and its relationship with the so-called War on Christmas. In 2015, we covered a claim that the U.S. would stop selling religious-themed Christmas stamps in 2016, and determined that it was false. Another false claim we covered in 2013 said that then-President Barack Obama had ordered the issuance of a Christmas postage stamp commemorating two Islamic holidays. Given that there is indeed a new Christmas stamp in 2021, depicting St. Nick or Santa Claus, and older stamps for other holidays are still available, we rate this claim as False. Related: A History of the 'War on Christmas' (en)
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