U.S. Postal Service to Issue Classic Santa Stamps this Christmas

Art Features Images from 1950s Coca-Cola Ads

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Jun 26, 2018, 10:17 ET

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's beginning to look like a classic Christmas! This October, the Postal Service will ring in the 2018 holiday season with four Sparkling Holidays stamps featuring character-rich close-ups of Santa Claus.

The Santa images are from Haddon Sundblom paintings created for The Coca-Cola Company holiday advertisements that ran from the 1940s through the early 1960s. Sundblom, a famed commercial artist, depicted a rosy-cheeked, smiling, grandfatherly man in a red suit that came to embody the very essence of "Santa."

The U.S Postal Service will ring in the 2018 holiday season with “Sparkling Holidays” – Forever stamps featuring classic Santa images from 1950s Coca-Cola advertisements.

The Sparkling Holidays stamps will be issued as Forever stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.

Additional details will be announced before the stamps' release.

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Cathy Purcell
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