Christmas stamped out

sir – You report (December 16) that more people are buying secular Christmas stamps rather than religious ones. Trying to buy religious stamps this year at our excellent village post office, I was told that they were not allocated many religious stamps and that they had sold out. Jane Billinghurst

Ticehurst, East Sussex

sir – I attempted in November to buy religious-themed Christmas stamps.

The main post office had no such second-class stamps, but a few first-class and European rate stamps of the kind. They did not expect more.

I have heard the same story from others. I believe the truth is that Royal Mail does not supply the need in post offices, not that there is no demand. Diana Davies

Harpenden, Hertfordshire

sir – The reason for a wane in buying religious-themed stamps is that the post office doesn’t have any. Again this year, the main post office in Bath didn’t have a single religious-themed stamp. Rob Dorrell

Chippenham, Wiltshire

sir – I tried two post offices and neither had any religious-themed stamps to sell within their allocation.

It’s not that people don’t want religious stamps, it is that this year Royal Mail has made it impossible to buy them. Jane Jessop

Winchester, Hampshire

sir – Is the Royal Mail covertly intending to remove religious-themed stamps from sale by the expedient of making them impossible to buy and then claiming a lack of demand? Charles Fingleton

Bath, Somerset