Buy Holiday Stamps (BuyHolidayStamps.com) is an independent informational website edited from Atlanta, Georgia, about holiday mailing, postage, greeting cards, and seasonal correspondence in the United States. It was created to answer the practical questions that come up every year — when to mail Christmas cards, how many stamps an envelope needs, what to write inside a card, and what USPS rules apply — in one organized, easy-to-check place.
Why This Site Exists
Holiday mailing looks simple until you are standing in line in mid-December with a stack of cards, unsure whether the square envelopes need extra postage or whether you have already missed the last reasonable mailing day. Official information exists, but it is scattered across postal service pages written for every kind of mailer, from individuals to national shippers.
This site gathers the parts that matter to everyday senders and presents them as focused guides: one question per page, a direct answer near the top, and the underlying rule or source made clear. The goal is not to publish the most pages, but to make each page genuinely useful when you are planning a mailing.
What We Cover
- Holiday mailing — planning, preparation, checklists, and timing for cards and letters.
- Postage and stamps — Forever Stamps, stamp counts, First-Class Mail, and how to buy stamps from reputable sources.
- Writing — Christmas card messages, business greetings, thank-you letters, and correct envelope addressing.
- Business mailing — holiday cards for customers, colleagues, and partners, including bulk mailing planning.
- USPS rules — letter size and weight requirements, extra-postage situations, and postage for large envelopes.
- Etiquette and design — card-sending customs and choosing stamp designs for different occasions.
The Mailing Guides page maps the whole library, and the Holiday Mailing Calendar keeps the year’s mailing rhythm in view.
Who the Site Is For
Readers here include individuals and families sending personal holiday cards; people mailing greeting cards and letters throughout the year; small businesses keeping in touch with customers; and organizations — schools, nonprofits, churches, healthcare providers, real estate professionals, and service companies — that run annual holiday mailings. Industry coverage looks at each audience’s actual communication purpose and timing rather than repeating the same advice with a different label.
Our Editorial Approach
Facts about postage rates, size and weight limits, and USPS services are checked against official USPS sources before publication, and changing facts are rechecked as USPS updates them. Where a recommendation is our own judgment — for example, a comfortable safety margin for mailing Christmas cards — it is presented as a recommendation, not as an official deadline. The full approach is set out in the Editorial Policy, and the sources we rely on are listed on Sources & References. Our Content Updates Policy explains how pages are reviewed and corrected over time.
Meet the Editor
I’m James Miller, the editor of Buy Holiday Stamps. Before retiring here in Atlanta, Georgia, I spent my career with the United States Postal Service working in commercial mail — the business side of the mail, where companies, organizations, and mail service providers prepare and send mailings at volume. Day to day, that meant the practical details this site is built on: postage rates and how they change, size and weight rules, addressing standards, sorting and preparation requirements, and the deadlines that decide whether a mailing arrives when it should.
I started this site because the questions families and small businesses ask every holiday season — how many stamps does this card need, when is the last sensible day to mail it, what should we write to our customers — are the same questions I answered throughout my career, just at a kitchen-table scale instead of a loading-dock one. The rules are public, but they are scattered and written for professionals. My job here is to translate them into plain, checkable guidance, and to tell you clearly when something is an official USPS rule and when it is simply my recommendation based on experience.
Every guide on this site is researched against official USPS sources and reviewed the way I was trained to work: get the rate right, get the date right, and say so when the Postal Service has not announced something yet. If you spot anything that looks wrong, I want to hear about it — corrections are how this site stays trustworthy.
Independence and Contact
BuyHolidayStamps.com is not the United States Postal Service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by USPS. It is an informational resource only: it does not sell postage, accept mail, or track packages. For official services, visit USPS directly or a local Post Office.
Questions, corrections, and suggestions are welcome by email — see the Contact Us page.