Town Uses Special Stamp To Mark Envelopes

An annual holiday tradition is under way at the post office in the small New Hampshire town of Bethlehem according to a local television station -WMUR-TV. Each year thousands of people travel to Bethlehem to have their Christmas cards stamped.

The station reports on their website, "The cache [sic] stamp, as it's called, was created by the postmaster in the mid-1960s and hasn't changed since. It illustrates a typical Bethlehem, N.H., scene, with Christmas trees pointing up toward a star."

A local postal workers are quoted as saying about 50,000 Christmas cards will be stamped in the Bethlehem (pop.2000) post office this year - with both a hand cancel and an antique cancelling machine.

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