Going Postal

The Smoking Gun is having some good fun at the expense of the US Postal Service's new personalized stamp program, which allows users to make stamps out of virtually any image. Click here to see valid stamps featuring the Unabomber (as a high school and college student), Jimmy Hoffa, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and America's newest sweethearts, New Jersey Gov. James McGreevy and Israeli poet Golan Cipel. (TSG acknowledge that stamps consisting of mug shots of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Unabomber didn't pass the USPS censors).

TSG's stamp of Monica Lewinsky's stained blue dress, however, breaks no new ground. Back in January 2004, Reason's Jesse Walker talked with artists Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna, who have, er, made their mark not only with a Monica stamp but many other similar creations. Read all about it here.

Comments

[kevrob]

Right on, Russell! There's a nice picture @
http://www.lysanderspooner.org , too.

Kevin

[raymond_m]

Nobody's dog deserves to be on a stamp.

WRONG!

[stampdog]

What are the copyright issues?

[Douglas Fletcher]

Who's going to sue over one stamp?

[tom]

As I posted over at Beurocrash, Use your enemies weapons against them.

Put the FedEx or UPS logos on these. Use the USPS to argue for its' own demise.

The LP logo, Libery Penguin, or Free State porcupine would also be good ideas.

[brooklyn dave]

At least this will bring a bit of humour into the dull dull life of the US postal service. I am getting weary of all those stamps showing flowers, animals, birds and fish or a stamp honoring some goofy looking dude that invented the widget.

[db]

I wonder if text can be included in the image. As in, the LP logo with "www.lp.org" underneath it.

[Russell Hanneken]

Someone should do a 3-cent stamp with Lysander Spooner's picture.

[dhex]

disney, if i had to guess.

[Peter K.]

I remember a short-lived magazine called "Scanlan's Monthly" in the early 1970s. One issue had a mock Canada postage stamp featuring the image of the girl screaming over the slain body of a Kent State student.