ok.
Hamper=Laundry Hamper in US
In Australia (and I presume England as well):
A Hamper can be a basket filled with small gifts (often rare food, or delicacies, sometimes baby surplies as in a mini-baby-shower in a basket/box)
And Christmas Hampers are especially common gifts... rare Jam/lollies (Candy), Christmas Pudding, gingerbread, butter-scotch biscuits... etc....
often given by employers as in Australia we don't do Christmas bonuses as part of salary packaging (I know that is a big american custom) ... as my dad is a doctor, we always got them from the hospital and some of his patients.... they were great time savers, as we then passed them on to aunts/grandparents etc. who are really hard people to buy gifts for...
Does that explain what I meatn...
and do you have a similar "American" word for this HAMPER that would replace it
