Christmas postage stamps issued each year by Australia Post. 1959 to this year.

Christmas Postage Stamps

Each year Australia Post issue a series of Christmas postage stamps to facilitate the mailing of Christmas greeting cards to friends, at a reduced postage rate. In the early 1960's I commenced saving postage stamps with the intention that one wet day when I am old I would assemble them into albums. There was a wet day in November 2000 but I am not old yet as I am only 68, however I did sort through the stamps and displayed here are some of the Christmas stamps from that accumulation.

I have just added the 2014 Christmas stamps to the display, but I am not old yet. This display covers 56 years. Guess how old I was when I started this collection.

1959	1960	1963	1968
1969	1977	1978	1981
2000	2000	2001
2002	2003	2004	2005
The 2007 Christmas stamp issue celebrates its 50th anniversary by utilising classic designs from previous Christmas stamp issues.
One of the 2008 designs depicts the red crabs, birds and butterflies of Christmas Island which is a a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located 2600 kilometres (1600 miles) northwest of Perth, WA.
2008	2008	2009	2009
2010	2011	2011	2011
2011	2012	2012	.
In December 2013 some of the Christmas Card envelopes were coloured red. I scanned one of these and found it made an excellent border for the stamp. I then carefully removed the other stamps from their white envelopes and scanned them on a red background.
2013	2013	2013
2014	2014	2014	2014
2015	2015		2015

2017		2017
2018		2019	2019

The first Christmas stamp was issued in Australia on 6th November 1957. My list above starts with the 1959 stamp. To provide a record of the early years copies of the 1957 and 1958 stamps are displayed here.
1957	1957	1958