Rudolph Village in Wisconsin Stamps over 50,000 Cards during Christmas Season

A post office in a village in central Wisconsin is a favorite destination of many people during Christmas.

The village of 500 residents is called Rudolph and people come to the post office here to get their cards and gifts stamped with the village's address to send out. 

The stamp reads, "Rudolph, Wisconsin, Home of Rudolph, The Red Nose Reindeer," with an image of the Christmas character. This year the post office has a special postmark with not only the date, but Rudolph in a scarf and Santa hat. 

The post office h as been following this tradition for the past 60 years. The little post office is served by one postmaster, one clerk and two carriers and processes  around 2,500 to 3000 cards and letters during the holiday season.

The traffic peaks on  the Rudolph County Christmas Celebration day when it crosses the 10,000 mark. During the holiday season, that post office will probably handle 50,000 cards and letters, the U.S. Postal Service said, reports ABC news. 

The tradition of  Rudolph the reindeer stamp was started by postmaster Lillian Blonien in 1945 as a Girl Scouts project.

This year the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative set of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer forever stamps to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the popular television show. Rudolph, Hermey, Santa and Bumble grace the set of four Limited Edition Forever stamps.

Every year, the community holds a drawing contest to choose one for the post office's special hand-cancellation stamp centred around Rudolph.

This year, college student Natalie Aumann was picked for both the cancellation image and Rudolph's official stamp. This year the image has Rudolph in a santa hat and a muffler saying 2014.