Who is Going Postal?
USPS Needs Your Help to Determine
Living people will now be eligible to be honored on U.S. postage stamps, this was once an honor only for the deceased. The USPS website states, "The Postal Service is inviting the public to use social media to submit their ideas for individuals to honor."
The United States Postal Service has been under the gun lately. Even locally, there is a threat to close our post office. Many people are rallying to save it from the budget ax. With the onset of bill pay, many people are paying online and this has been a tremendous blow to the USPS.
The USPS is rallying and using social media to launch a new campaign. For years, the only way to make it on to the face of a stamp was required that you were dead first. The living were not allowed to have this prestigious position.
According to the USPS website, "Customers can view the stamps on Facebook at facebook.com/USPSStamps, through Twitter@USPSstamps or on the website Beyond the Perf at beyondtheperf.com/2012-preview."
You can read the full press release here.
I am an advocate for saving the Post Office. I still believe that sending and receiving an actual piece of something that was held by another human being means more than getting an electronic piece of correspondence. There is a value in that worth more than the 44 cents to mail it.
Writing Christmas cards and mailing them to family and friends is a tradition in my house. Receiving them and hanging them up gives me great joy.
While it doesn't matter to me who gets to be the first living person featured on the new stamps, I think we should begin with those who have provided a service for our country. I would like to see our veterans, our military, our firefighters, our nurses, doctors and anyone who labors, volunteers or serves to keep America shining bright.
Go to the links above and vote for your choice in honoring the living on a postage stamp.
Generations of future stamp collectors will have something special to collect when this stamp becomes the first to go into circulation.
Sources:
http://www.facebook.com/USPS?sk=wall
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/consumer&id=8368134
Published by Michele Starkey
Optimist who enjoys writing, laughing and spreading good news. If I have but one life to live, I hope to make mine memorable. My epitaph will read: she lived, she loved, she left. View profile
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55 Comments
Post a CommentAwesome work :)
Its recent financial woes led to ridiculous debates on news shows. One person complained the mail brings bills. Mail carrier or not, you'll still have bills to pay. I love the post office and agree there is extra value in receiving a tangible piece of mail instead of e-mail, but I truly hope this doesn't lead to a Justin Bieber/Mariah Carey stamp.
I suspect this is going to open a gigantic can of worms.
I love getting mail too and those email cards are awful!
I can't think of a living person that deserves the honor... everyone I think of is already dead, how weird is that!
Getting "real" mail and reading a newspaper are two things I love and would hate to see disappear. My choice for the first living person on a stamp? Why, Warren Buffett, who had the cajones to tell the truth about the rich.
Great article. I also enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards!
I absolutely LOVE to send and receive Christmas cards. It's so sad that so many have abandoned that practice. My favorite thing come the second week in December is checking the mail to see how many cards I've received, and then I'm so bummed if I didn't get any! However, I will say that the "no snail mail" trend is much better for our planet.
Thanks Michele for the shout-out for the USPS! Support your local postal worker... mail a letter!
Interesting, thanks. :)