Charlie Brown Christmas Forever Stamps Set To Be Released

It’s time to start thinking about sending holiday cards. The Postal Service is releasing the commemorative stamps in early October because that’s’ when the Peanuts comic strip debuted in newspapers way back in 1950.

The cartoon, based on characters from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip aired December 9, 1965, and has become a holiday tradition.

According to the USPS, the collector items come in a booklet of twenty stamps features ten unique images from the Christmas classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas“.

This is not the first “Peanuts” stamp.

“We will visit millions of addresses to connect Americans to one another this holiday season, and to enable the sharing that reinforces family and friendship throughout the country”, Brennan said in a press release. “It will probably be an awesome pleasure to see these iconic photographs once I open my mailbox this vacation season”.

It’s time for your new stamps, Charlie Brown! Art director Antonio Alcalá of Alexandria, VA, designed the stamps. By the time of Charles Schulz’s death in 2000, his comic strip was syndicated in more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide and his “Peanuts” books were published in more than 21 languages.

Meanwhile, Charlie Brown and the gang will appear in “The Peanuts Movie,” which is scheduled to hit theaters November 6.