Living people on U.S. stamps: Who would you choose?

AP via Seattle Times ^ | September 26, 2011 | HOPE YEN and STACY A. ANDERSON

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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.

[Slings and Arrows]

Y'know, I think Freepers may have a few suggestions.

[Slings and Arrows]

0bama is out - people won't know which side of the stamp to spit on.

[re_nortex]

Dick Cheney.

[DBrow]

The Bill Clinton pic where he’s got this skeevy look on his face.

[coloradan]

Ben Bernanke. (You’re talking about food stamps, right?)

[Michael.SF.]

Elvis

[napscoordinator]

If the choice is Lady Gaga, Charlie Sheen or myself, I would put Lady Gaga on the stamp because she has been the most successful. Sheen is an idiot and me....I am an average salary family man just trying to make it so hardly stamp material.

[unkus]

Herman Cain. A real American.

[DelanoSAlways]

Food Stamps you say? Obviously Martin Luther King.

[World'sGoneInsane]

Nancy Reagan.

[umgud]

Jim Robinson

[taterjay]

How about Cigar guy at the golf course or Katrina looter man. Sorry I do not have the pics. Maybe someone could help out.

[Slings and Arrows]

Jim Robinson

Oh h*ll yeah. In a set with Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter.

[Crooked Constituent]

Chaz Bono

[giotto]

USPS may be onto something here. Let celebrities pay to have their mugs on stamps. I wouldn’t mind sending a letter with a Justin Bieber or Bette Midler stamp, if it meant I could still get my Saturday mail.

[dfwgator]

Elvis

You know something we don't?

[Slings and Arrows]

Knock yourself out.

[cherry]

probably Cassius Clay..not my favorite but he has had a huge impact....

[dfwgator]

Jim Robinson

Don't you mean Jim Thompson?

[MarMema]

felonious munk.

[djf]

Lady Liberty?

Oh, wait... she’s dead...

[rfp1234]

Rush

[Slings and Arrows]

probably Cassius Clay..not my favorite but he has had a huge impact....

*rimshot*

[rfp1234]

Jim Robinson

[dfwgator]

I say put a picture of a prostitute on the stamp....it will cost 46 cents at the post office, but if you want to lick it, it will cost 20 bucks.

[Crooked Constituent]

Or Ted Kennedy with the swim trunks and packer helmet, anyone have that pic?

[Allegra]

General Petraeus.

[Slings and Arrows]

OK, that got a LOL!

[dfwgator]

Rush

Since when do we put Canadians on US Stamps?

[Allegra]

Chuck Norris.

[taterjay]

I think President Obama would like a Je...Janitor on the stamp.

[5thGenTexan]

I believe this is all about Obama. Remember the schools being named for him before the inaguration? They need to get this to happen while there is still a shadow of the hype of hope and change alive.

I think even the most far left liberals know deep down inside that by the time he is gone, there will be no one who would consider him to be on a stamp. And all the schools that were named for him will all have been quietly renamed as well by the time of his death.

[Irenic]

Thomas Sowell for sure. Stephen Hawking, amazing man that ticks me off, but I can’t deny how amazing he is. Bah! It is too late for Dr. Michael Elias DeBakey.

Do they need to be Americans? If not, maybe Margaret Thatcher, Daniel Hannan (sorry, just LOVE that speech of his)

[Slings and Arrows]

Chuck Norris.

You'd have to roundhouse-kick it onto the envelope.

[dfwgator]

The Most Interesting Man in the World, even if the letter has insufficient postage, it would still get there.

[Crooked Constituent]

Jesus? He is alive afterall.

[JLS]

Of course it will be Obama and the USPS is right, they will probably sell a bunch of them. They would be smart to release a General Swartzkoff stamp or someone on the other side at the same time.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

They should have a stamp series of teenage girls taking cellphone camera Facebook profile shots of themselves. We can bury them in time capsules so future civilizations will have an idea of what went wrong with ours.

[Slings and Arrows]

Obviously it’s about Zer0 - with him, it always is.

[rfp1234]

LOL. If we did, I’d say Mark Steyn, the modern equivalent of Thomas Paine. ;-P

[Mount Athos]

They should have kept the rule disallowing living people on the stamp

[taterjay]

Yes, Jesus. It took a second but the brain finally clicked! Let’s try one more...ummm...how about, for seriousness, Clarence Thomas, a great and wonderful American.

[ari-freedom]

How about this idea. You get to choose what to put on your stamps but we get to choose alternative postal service companies to get our mail instead of being stuck with a monopoly.

[svcw]

When my brother’s first grandson was born he had the baby’s picture put on stamps. Very cute.

[Slings and Arrows]

They should have kept the rule disallowing living people on the stamp

Agreed. Primary reason I posted it, in fact.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’d propose it just to hear the screaming.

[ari-freedom]

yeah you know it’s just a way to get Obama in there

[Errant]

[dfwgator]

You just had to go there, didn’t you?

[count-your-change]

Suggestions? Sure do! If the post office needs money why not sell a spot on the postage stamps? Pay a million dollars and get your face on one issue of stamps. Second issue, double the price and no more spots for former buyers for the next few years.

Or maybe instead of faces company logos. Or cancellation stamps with a persons name on it if they buy a special envelope.