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Is this the most news-worthy story today? No, it's far from it.

But it's amusing in how a small unintentional (well OK, it was likely unintentional) typo can lead to such a big problem.

Comments or opinions - anyone?

1 posted on 09/04/2008 9:08:45 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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2 posted on 09/04/2008 9:10:17 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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Oh, it's supposed to be a Duck Stamp... sorry, wrong number.
3 posted on 09/04/2008 9:11:18 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: MplsSteve

That’s really foul...


5 posted on 09/04/2008 9:15:50 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: MplsSteve

Wow.The Fed is finally advertising what they’ve been doing to all of us.


7 posted on 09/04/2008 9:16:40 AM PDT by quack
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To: MplsSteve

“Yeah but this ones eating my popcorn!”


9 posted on 09/04/2008 9:17:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: MplsSteve

Low bidder got the contract, I guess.


11 posted on 09/04/2008 9:22:11 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Hey Biden! Saracuda's gonna give you a major wedgie in the VP debates!)
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To: MplsSteve

“She adds that the agency will keep selling the $15 stamps with the naughty number because reprinting the card would cost too much.”

If I tried that with MY business it would not last long.


12 posted on 09/04/2008 9:22:53 AM PDT by mkcc30 (Save a Whale.....Kill a Terrorist!)
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I guess you are going to take up Duck Hunting in Minnesota as a hobby??


13 posted on 09/04/2008 9:34:34 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: MplsSteve

Well it is actually a news-worthy story, because it illuminates our government’s complete lack of inventiveness when it comes to dealing with a problem. A private business would have:

1. Used a Sharpie to black out the number.

2. Stuck a piece of white tape over the number.

3. Bought a package of labels for the printer in each office, and printed up a small label with the right number.

4. Cut the section with the number off the card.

5. Bought a bunch of rubber stamps with the right number.

or any of a number of other possible solutions that didn’t involve spending a fortune to print up new cards and stamps.

Admitedly, the proposed solutions would have involved some additional work for the federal employees distributing the stamps, but... huh? Oh. Never mind.


14 posted on 09/04/2008 9:48:57 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: MplsSteve

“Can I get me a duck huntin’ license here?”
-John Francoise Kerry


15 posted on 09/04/2008 9:54:55 AM PDT by gigster
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To: MplsSteve

Does it take you to the spoof United Airlines ad?

The one with 2 united ducks and says fly united?


16 posted on 09/04/2008 10:00:07 AM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: MplsSteve

yep, federal gubmint employees-that’s who I want providing my health care, afterall What could possibly go wrong?


17 posted on 09/04/2008 10:03:40 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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Sales of the stamp, which is produced by the U.S. Postal Service for Fish and Wildlife...

Well, the phone number is sort of wildlife related.

19 posted on 09/04/2008 10:12:38 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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21 posted on 09/04/2008 11:01:58 AM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: MplsSteve
Comments or opinions - anyone?

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Duck Hunters-- UNTIE !......LOL....(Can't wait for next season)

22 posted on 09/04/2008 11:05:58 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: MplsSteve

This is dithpicable!


24 posted on 09/04/2008 11:09:38 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: MplsSteve

“bird porn”. I learned about that from moonbats protesting outside the GOP convention.


25 posted on 09/05/2008 3:17:52 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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