by INFORUM
U.S. Postal Service to allow the living to be featured on postage stamps
September 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm in INFORUM
WASHINGTON Who would you put on a stamp? Charlie Sheen? Lady Gaga? Yourself?
Hoping to boost sagging revenue, the U.S. Postal Service on Monday abandoned its longstanding rule that stamps cannot feature people who are still alive and is asking the public for suggestions.
It’s a first that means living sports stars, writers, artists and other prominent or not-so-prominent people could take their places in postal history next to the likes of George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marilyn Monroe. Continue Reading
Rome is burning for them and they’re fiddling with stamp pictures…..sheer madness.
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Thank you Julian…well written!
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They’ve already had one living person sort of on a stamp. The Bell X-1 stamp showed a pilot in the cockpit, which of course would have been Chuck Yeager.
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