Linn’s Stamp News reports that is, indeed, the subject of the “contemporary” Christmas issue this year. There is no word yet on how many stamps are in this issue, but recent past contemporary Christmas issues have had four designs.

No first-day date was announced, but holiday stamps are often released at the ASDA show in New York; that would be October 23rd or 24th.

Linn’s points out that the Rudolph animated television special debuted on December 6, 1964, making this the 50th anniversary of the TV show. But the song itself was released in 1949, recorded by Gene Autry. (The lyrics, as a poem, had been used the previous year as advertising for the Montgomery Ward chain of department stores.)

The newspaper says this will be a double-sided pane of 20 in a convertible-booklet format.