No more Santa stamps? That’s right. ‘Cause Santa is “Saint Nick”, and that’s not non-denominational.
At least, that’s what I was told at the post office this morning. The same post office that had a “holiday” tree topped with a non-denominational “holiday” angel. I also learned that postal employees receive dozens of memos and reminders to not say “Merry Christmas” to patrons, but rather, “Happy Holidays”.
There are religious holiday stamps picturing Mary and Baby Jesus – who were pretty decent folk I presume, but I went for the Santa-free “holiday” stamps which feature Rudolph, a Nutcracker, a Snowman, and a Gingerbread man – all of whom are Unitarian, I’m guessing. We have Hanukkah stamps, and Kwanzaa stamps – but, no more Santa!
Which leads me to ask – how watered down are our holidays here in America?
Of course there are the Nutcracker stamps (boring!) which feature a SantaCracker among the collection of 4, but…Really? no more Santa? Would a Santa stamp really be that offensive?
