Sir, - We seem to produce an enormous number of new stamps each year. No doubt it keeps a qualified design team busy. Are the team really happy with this year's stamp to commemorate the birth of Christ - a little triangular Christmas tree?
Now that in our new secular Ireland we have abandoned the traditional Christian overtones on our Christmas stamps, I expect it will be no time before we have the festive stamp display a hamburger or a motor car - with the appropriate "Best Wishes" from the sponsors. In an era when making money is the one and only reason for doing anything, it must surely come very soon. - Yours, etc.,
The Arch, Greystones, Co Wicklow.