As Twitchy reported, a holiday stamp shown in a recent U.S. Postal Service mailer had tweeters scratching their heads. Since when did gingerbread houses become a Christmas symbol? And what’s so scary about the C-word?
Our post must’ve finally gotten the USPS’ attention, because this afternoon, it responded via Twitter:
@DJB627 our holiday stamp collection vary each year. We do have the Holy Family, Virgin & Child, Santa stamps on our site this year
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) November 21, 2013
OK, so wouldn’t it have maybe made more sense to use a picture of one of those? At least those symbols bring Christmas immediately to mind. A gingerbread house, not so much.
https://twitter.com/DJB627/status/403596563877867520
Seems pretty clear to us, but then we’re not a government agency.
@DJB627 we understand our customers concerns.
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) November 21, 2013
If that were true, we probably wouldn’t be talking about the goofy gingerbread house stamp, would we?
https://twitter.com/DJB627/status/403601681050378240
@USPS @michellemalkin (The key here is that the stamp shown did NOT say Merry Christmas. Christmas is a holiday!)
— Brice Stroneski (@Brice57) November 21, 2013
According to @USPS, the holiday stamps featured in the mailer were just the newly released ones:
@bzbex @EricBartel @RennaW our ad features our newly issued stamps for this year.
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) November 21, 2013
Fair enough. But that doesn’t change the fact that the USPS probably could’ve thought about things a little more carefully.
https://twitter.com/DJB627/status/403602530925428736
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