Daily printout: Dec. 23, 2025

Dane Coleman, the Postal Service’s processing operations vice president, will retire on Wednesday, Dec. 31.

He began his 40-year career with the Postal Service as a 21-day casual employee during the 1985 holiday season at the processing and distribution facility in Easton, MD.

After becoming a career employee, Coleman served in several processing and distribution center management roles in Easton; Baltimore; Philadelphia; and Jacksonville, FL.

He also served in multiple headquarters leadership roles, including operations integration and support manager in the chief operating officer’s organization.

Coleman later became the former Northeast Area’s acting vice president.

He was appointed to his current position in 2023 and has been responsible for managing strategies to stabilize the processing workforce, coordinating the deployment of new package processing equipment, bringing several new modernized processing plants on line and implementing network changes to drive productivity and improve efficiencies.

Christmas, the annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, is Thursday, Dec. 25.

Historians believe the holiday originated in Rome in the year 336. As Christianity spread across the world, the celebration of Christmas became more widespread and the holiday evolved to include both religious and cultural traditions, such as exchanging gifts, decorating trees and family gatherings.

In the United States, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation that made Christmas a federal holiday in 1870. The law applied only to federal workers and the District of Columbia, but the observance of Christmas as a legal holiday was eventually adopted by all states.

The U.S. Post Office Department released its first Christmas stamp in 1962.

The release started a tradition of extending seasonal greetings with stamps honoring secular and religious holidays.