Make the holidays even sweeter with this booklet of 12 Permanent™ domestic rate stamps featuring a gingerbread birdhouse that has all the “creature comforts.”

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These scrumptious stamps feature elaborately decorated gingerbread houses with all their “creature comforts” – a birdhouse (Permanent™ domestic rate), a doghouse (U.S. rate) and a barn that is the home of Santa’s magical transport team (international rate).
Souvenir sheets and souvenir sheet Official First Day Covers are also available.

About the issue

These stamps, in three popular denominations, are part of our annual tradition of providing secular holiday-themed stamps for mailing cards and other holiday mail.

Gingerbread houses may have originated in what is now Germany. They were often ornately decorated and eventually became part of Christmas traditions. German, Dutch, French and English settlers brought gingerbread to Canada as early as the 1700s.

Today, many hotels, bakeries and other places create lavish gingerbread houses and sometimes whole villages to delight visitors.

There are gingerbread-house making competitions in many Canadian cities. Classes and DIY kits are also available for those who want to try to make their own.

About the design

These scrumptious stamps feature elaborately decorated gingerbread houses with all their “creature comforts” – a birdhouse (domestic rate), a doghouse (U.S. rate) and a barn that is the home of Santa’s magical transport team of reindeer (international rate).

The “sweet” designs feature photographs of actual baked and constructed gingerbread houses.

These stamps carry on the annual tradition of providing whimsical, holiday-themed stamps that make mail more festive.

Product # 114270

Holiday: Gingerbread Houses: booklet of 12 Permanent™ domestic rate stamps