Who Would You Put On A Stamp?
Dave Carter ·
Sep 26, 2011 at 1:33pm
Not one to let a trifling annoyance like going broke get in the way of important priorities, the US Postal Service, which is currently running a $9.2 billion deficit and faces a possible default next summer, wants to unveil a new stamp. And, in a new twist, they would like to honor a living person. There are lots of directions one could go with this story, obviously, but I'd really much rather hear your thoughts, if you have a moment. Is this a good idea? Who would you commemorate? As an opening suggestion for a stamp, here is my nominee:
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Jun '10
Re: Who Would You Put On A Stamp?
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
May '11
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It had better be peel-and-stick. I am NOT licking the back of a stamp for any person the USPS would care to honor.
Dec '10
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Dave, an exceptionally good choice. Where's the petition?
Jun '10
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It is always a bad idea to put anyone living on a stamp in my view. But, I have nothing against—indeed, I would praise—your suggestion to honour the military generically. The reason I say generically, is because to honour a single soldier raises the questions of who and why? This argument harkens back to the issue of the President attending the funerals of soldiers killed in action. If that ever happened the president would be opening a jackpot of criticism along the lines of who and why, as in whose funeral to attend and why this soldier and not that one. Robert Bird long ago proved, in my view, the utter folly of naming anything after a living person. This stamp business will only confirm what we already know and have proven in spades.
Re: Who Would You Put On A Stamp?
There's only one right answer:
Peter Robinson
Jun '10
Re: Who Would You Put On A Stamp?
Service members generally or Medal of Honor recipients specifically. How about both.
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Rob Long: There's only one right answer:
Peter Robinson · Sep 26 at 1:55pm
That would be an Uncommon Stamp, right?
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Agreed, Bob. Good point.
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Corporal Dakota L. Meyer, USMC.
Dec '10
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That was the Soviet era joke: the Kremlin commissioned a study to find out why the new Brezhnev stamps were falling off the envelopes. The report found that half the people were spitting on the wrong side of the stamp, while the other half were licking the back side so assiduously that all the glue came off.
Aug '10
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I'm against putting people on a new stamp, unless they have some actual research showing that people buy more stamps when a really interesting one comes out (excluding rate hike changeovers). Then do the cost/benefit projections and release one with whoever will make their horrendous deficit shrink by a few bucks.
I find it hard to believe they are hurting for design ideas. I, for one, would be perfectly happy with a simple and elegant American flag design. It takes me 3 years to go through a book of 20 stamps, and the last two I bought had the same Liberty Bell design; surely 6 years is a long enough wait to bring the flag back.
Mar '11
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Medal of Honor recipients works for me.
I would also do a series: Great Creators - and make it for people who have made things that never existed before, and in so doing, changed the world. Here are some possible candidates:
Gordon Moore
Andrew Grove
Steve Jobs
Nicholas B. Lydon
Martin Cooper
Mevlin de Groote
Shunpei Yamazaki
Kia Silverbrook
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BlueAnt: I'm against putting people on a new stamp, unless they have some actual research showing that people buy more stamps when a really interesting one comes out (excluding rate hike changeovers). Then do the cost/benefit projections and release one with whoever will make their horrendous deficit shrink by a few bucks.
I find it hard to believe they are hurting for design ideas. I, for one, would be perfectly happy with a simple and elegant American flag design. It takes me 3 years to go through a book of 20 stamps, and the last two I bought had the same Liberty Bell design; surely 6 years is a long enough wait to bring the flag back. · Sep 26 at 2:07pm
How about a stamp commemorating the taxpayers who will have to pay for all this?
Jun '10
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For a living international hero, how about Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, the man who prevented World War III. Today is Stanislav Petrov Day.
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Harper Lee!
Aug '10
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If they'll buy more stamps, sure. The libertarians in the corner are yelling that if we had private post offices, there would be plenty of political protest stamps and designs that consumers demand.
Heck, Justin Bieber has millions of fans who buy up any merchandise associated with him. If it'll sell another 10 million booklets, I say slap his goofy Canadian mug on some tiny stickers and start hawking them on Youtube.
Dec '10
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There should be a law -- or a Constitutional Amendment -- prohibiting any living person who has served in Federal office from being commemorated on postage, currency or the name of any publicly-funded structure. I can see the USPS using this new policy to try to buy indulgences from Congress and the Executive.
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BlueAnt
Heck, Justin Bieber has millions of fans who buy up any merchandise associated with him. If it'll sell another 10 million booklets, I say slap his goofy Canadian mug on some tiny stickers and start hawking them on Youtube. · Sep 26 at 2:47pm
I almost choked on my cheeseburger reading that... You're a dangerous person to read, BlueAnt.
Re: Who Would You Put On A Stamp?
That would take the names off half the stuff in West Virginia! I drove through the Robert C. Byrd Memorial Pothole just the other day!
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iWc: Medal of Honor recipients works for me.
I would also do a series: Great Creators - and make it for people who have made things that never existed before, and in so doing, changed the world. Here are some possible candidates:
Gordon Moore
Andrew Grove
Steve Jobs
Nicholas B. Lydon
Martin Cooper
Mevlin de Groote
Shunpei Yamazaki
Kia Silverbrook · Sep 26 at 2:10pm
This is a great idea!
But wait -- which one of those guys was in government?