Winter Woodland Animals Forever First Class Postage Stamps

A deer, a fox, a rabbit and an owl, each set among details of a winter habitat: a moon, snow-loaded branches, holly with berries, small snowflakes. The white-tailed deer is the one most people will have actually seen; it is among the most numerous deer on the continent. The set is winter rather than Christmas, and nothing in it commits to a holiday.

That is the practical distinction. These carry December cards going to a mixed list, and they keep working through January and February when the seasonal stamps have run out and the mail has not. Nature centers and wildlife organizations use them on member mail, where an owl does more work than a wreath. Booklets of 20, four designs repeating through the book, so a set of cards to one family need not all carry the same animal. Forever value applies, so leftovers mail ordinary letters at the current rate.