Christmas cards get holy touch with Bethlehem postmark
December 23, 2016
BETHLEHEM, N.H. (AP) — Instead of mailing her Christmas cards from her local post office, Sherry Wareing drove 20 miles roundtrip to a small post office in a White Mountains town of about 2,500.
Convenience didn't matter to Wareing, of Twin Mountain. She wanted the "Bethlehem" stamp on her envelopes.
"We feel the connection here with Jesus Christ, Bethlehem, the birth of Christ and everything. This kind of represents it for us," she said.
According to the Bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in what is now the West Bank.
Most of the year, letters and other mail dropped off at the tiny post...
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