Posted on 12/08/2004 12:21:57 AM PST by torqemada
I am at an absolute loss for words over this one. If you're not, please feel free to comment.
Send the postmaster a postcard with a picture of a lump of coal.
Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and now we have Eid. Now everybody can celebrate shopping season!
Send the postmaster a photo of a FedEx truck with your naked butt mooning him out the window.
Celebrating the real meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, is subversive.
Dare I say, even counterculture.
;-)
Who decided the real meaning of Christmas?
Like what it means and how it should be celebrated.
Should it be some kind of religious ceremony or service or decorations and gift giving?
If someone really wanted to do it right where would they look to know for sure?
Just a little friendly advice. Don't believe everything you read in the newspaper or hear/see on the news.
CBS, NBC, USA Today, The New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, BBC, and The Mirror have all been caught fabricating news items.
Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas EVERY DAY. Easter too.
They are great things to celebrate.
Myth? Hardly. I specifically asked for stamps with a religious image. They had to go into the back of my local post office to get some.
I will find out today. I am headed to my local PO to get my usual 50 or $60.00 worth of stamps. I still have a bunch of Flags so I'll be looking for the Christian religious ones.
Psst. Hey kid... want a Santa? Only 37 cents... this time.
Since I began buying commemorative stamps, they always place the special new commemoratives in the drawers of each booth for each Postal clerk.
The "regular" or most published stamps can be purchased in a machine, on a roll, in the grocery store, at Costco, etc.
The limited editions including Christmas stamps, are kept in a folder in a drawer along with all the other special issues.
This author is looking for problems, looking for something to gripe about.
There are many negatives to be found in the US Post Office, but this author just tried to make something out of nothing. It must be desperate times for the author.
Several years in a row the "new" Christmas stamps included the Madonna either in painting or sculpture, etc. There have been angel Christmas stamps, Santa Claus stamps, Christmas stamps with new toys, old toys, etc.
On your next trip to the Post Office, ask the clerk what the new commemoratives are since October, if they still have them, that is. Casual amateur stamp collectors often buy them up in bulk and your local Post Office may be sold out. Sold out does not imply religious discrimination.
THE CHRISTMAS LINKS PAGE
http://www.truthusa.com/CHRISTmas.html
It's more like a boatload of poetic license.
I may be completely wrong about this.
But....I think the meaning of Christmas may, possibly have something to do with the first six letters in the word. Christ
Like I said I may be wrong.
The post office would have no problem having a Madonna the pop slut on a Christmas stamp to buy in plain view.
And be sure to use a Mother and Child stamp on it.
I get your point but I think you missed mine.
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