'Charlie Brown' Comes to West Palm Beach 'Forever'

'Charlie Brown' Unite States Postal Service stamp

'Charlie Brown' Unite States Postal Service stamp

'Charlie Brown' and the mailbox

'Charlie Brown' skating

'Charlie Brown' and the gang at Christmas tree

...will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Holiday TV classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

West Palm Beach, FL - by USPS - The West Palm Beach Post Office, in conjunction with the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s Medical Center, invite the public to a free holiday celebration featuring a Charlie Brown Christmas Forever stamp dedication. On Friday, November 20, the celebration will begin at 10 a.m. at the hospital at 901 45th Street, West Palm Beach, Florida.

During the celebration, postal and hospital officials, along with the public, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Holiday TV classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Special guests will include Palm Beach Mayor Shelley Vana, West Palm Beach Postmaster Richard Fermo, Reverend Lena Bates, Literacy Coalition members, and the Bright Future Academy’s Children’s Choir.

The stamp images include: Charlie Brown holding the sapling that eventually becomes his Christmas tree; Charlie Brown and Pigpen with a snowman; Snoopy and children ice skating; the cast of the program gathered around the Christmas tree; Linus kneeling by the sparsely decorated Christmas tree; Charlie Brown checking his mailbox for a Christmas card; Charlie Brown and Linus leaning on a snowy brick wall; Charlie Brown and Linus standing by the Christmas tree; a frustrated Charlie Brown standing in front of Snoopy’s doghouse; and, Charlie Brown decorating the tree in front of the prize-winning lights display on Snoopy’s doghouse.

Art director Antonio Alcalá of Alexandria, VA, designed the stamps.

Charlie Brown Christmas Forever stamps always will be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce price