Your photo on a postage stamp!

[nsingman]

Stamps.com's offering is the first-ever service to let you create your own personalized postage.

They will be filtering, though: "Some images that we deem objectionable would include nudity, images that are obscene or show violence, or are controversial in a political way."

Comments

[thurdl01]

So then there goes the whole "dead 10 years" thing. How many people do you think have already created their own Bush (either) or Clinton stamps?

[nsingman]

Those might be politically controversial. A bit, anyway. :-)

[allah_sulu]

Stamps.com has a license to sell U.S. postage and PhotoStamps complies with all U.S. Postal Service (USPS) laws and regulations so that you can use your PhotoStamps to send anything that is normally sent through the mail, including letters, postcards and packages.
I didn't think it was legal to put pictures of living people onto stamps...

[nsingman]

I think it's more custom than law. Of course, I could be wrong. :-)

[thurdl01]

Postal service guideline at the very least, potentially even federal law. 10 years dead for regular people, something like 7 for ex-presidents.

Controversial Stamps

[epiphany]

I wonder if two fingers held in a V is still considered controversial?

I remember right after the war broke out there was some teeny bopper girl who had posed for a promotional poster for her movie and she was flashing a peace sign while standing in front of two English bobbies. They ended up airbrushing out the peace sign, but I can't remember what they replaced it with. (The finger? It probably would have been deemed more patriotic and certainly more appropriate under the circumstances.)

~ E.

Peace Sign

[epiphany]

It was a traditional peace sign. Two fingers with palm facing out.

It was yoinked following 9/11 and deemed "unpatriotic".

~ E.

Re: Controversial Stamps

[nsingman]

I'm guessing that it will be completely at their discretion. I can only hope that they're not too sensitive, or this won't be any fun at all, and they won't make any money.

[nsingman]

You can still indulge your vanity. You just can't indulge quite all of it. :-)

[missperkygoth]

No boobs, though? I mean, really...why bother?

[nsingman]

Now that's the attitude we know and love, Heather. :-)

[joezilla]

I was looking at this just today for a couple of reasons. First off, it seems that they're using the same technology that we licensed at work to allow people to design their own credit card using any image they wanted (within similar limits). Also, as I understand it, the 10-year rule can be set aside for special promos.

[nsingman]

It sounds pretty cool. Another thing you can personalize. If they're not too strict in their censorship, I think it ought to be reasonably successful.

More importantly, how are you guys doing?

[joezilla]

Well, at this point, the babies still eat every 3 hours. And since it takes about 90 minutes to feed all 3, that means we're only sleeping 90 minutes at a time. I feel bad for Angie because, now that I'm back to work, she has to handle it all by herself most of the day and has to do the 3 AM feeding by herself so that I can function at work.

However, I'm still hoping to organize an Omaha gathering next May. You have to help me work on Bob so that he'll help organize it. Hopefully by that time, the girls will be sleeping enough for me to sneak out with everyone for a weekend. :)

[mfbob]

"You have to help me work on Bob so that he'll help organize it."

Translation: I've got 3 kids now, so we'll be partying at Bob's next May. After all of these years, I know how to read Joe between the lines... ;-)

Maybe. I'd have to re-do the basement to make it work, but maybe. We'll see...