Posted on 04/21/2011 3:52:23 PM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
The image is of the plastic and styrofoam statue in Vegas.
Where did you find this?
To whoever in Government who authorized this stamp-—May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your Muslim sawed off gonads. May the flies of a thousand pig sties dung heaps fill your seditious filthy mouth. May you go back to the toilet nation you hatched from!
Look at the stamp more carefully. The postage stamp was not issued by the USPS but by the Zazzle.com web site that sells custom made products, including postage stamps.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/eid.htm
Flying around the net via email. I’ll get on left wing Snopes and see what they say.
I saw the Zazzle.com but assumed they copied the image from some other (gummint) source.
OK, knee jerk reaction. But considering the current occupant of the WH it seems too plausible.
...”considering the current occupant of the WH it seems too plausible.”
Got to agree with you on that!
http://www.zazzle.com/
been around for years, move along nothing to see here.
If you see the bar code on top, this is done through an e-stamp service like stamps.com. You can choose any image you want on your stamp. So, yes, it is probably a real stamp, but no, it isn’t something printed or sold by the post office, just some individual making his own.
Third party stamps should not be allowed with non-English text.
ML/NJ
I had one of my photographs made into a stamp by stamps.com. They were a dollar apiece, hardly a bargain. I used them all up.
The giveaway is the odd pattern associated with personal stamps that are accepted by the post office. I wonder how their mail sorters read them and know they are the correct amount?
I got a bunch of forever stamps and am now using them. I think one caused a payment to be very late because it got kicked around by the po. So I write forever with an arrow beside those.
I have one sheet left, wonder if it will have collector value. I don't really collect them, have a bunch of old first day covers, but bought some odd US triangle stamps and the National Park "poster" series. The Everglades one is really neat.
I wonder what it says on that stamp? It gives me some ideas to have a little fun but somebody might not like my sense of humor :-)
Like a lot of internet hoaxes, this one has evolved over the years. The snopes website offers some insight into what the stamp is supposed to represent. Scroll down about 3/4 of the way down the page:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/stamps/eidstamp.asp
Totally agree!
There is an official USPS stamp for the Muslim holiday, Eid (sp?).
According to Snopes, this stamp was part of the USPS Holiday Celebrations Series issued in Sept ‘01. Apparently the stamp has been reissued every year since then.
Lots more info: http://www.snopes.com/politics/stamps/eidstamp.asp
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