an ancient tradition that the church had failed to stamp out when it appropriated Dec. 25 as a Christian holiday. In this setting, “Merry Christmas” was born. The greeting was an act of ...

Kimbrough said he later got the idea to get a “Merry Christmas, TX” stamp made — kind of like a postmark. People apparently drove from all over to get Christmas cards and mail stamped at the ...

The card was a painting of a flower, and it read “Merry Christmas ... The introduction, 53 years ago, of the first Christmas stamp by the U.S. Post Office perhaps speaks even more powerfully ...

But most of the members of Congress were a bit more formulaic.