The Vulcan statue?

You know, that thing that goes ring ring, and you pick it up and say, "Hollow, statue?"

live long and prosper US Mail. They sure know how to make money.

They'd probably would make even more money if there wasn't a US law prohibiting the image of living people on stamps. I think James Doohan and Gene Roddenberry would be the only people who would qualify to get on a Star Trek stamp in 2016. (DeForrest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy haven't been dead long enough yet.) The Royal Mail doesn't have that problem which is why they were able to come out with Doctor Who stamps with all eleven actors in 2013, not just the first three who have passed away.

The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal 2014. If that's what you call knowing how to make money, you're a lot more generous than I am.

The reason the USPS is losing money is because Congress passed a law in 2006, I believe, requiring them to fully fund pension (and possibly health) benefits for their employees 75 years into the future. No other company or government agency has this requirement. The ban on politics here pregents the discussion of why this was passed. This requirement costs the USPS billions each year.

The USPS issued stamps in 2007 for Star Wars, depicting the living actors as the characters they played. And in 2013, they issued stamps showing scenes from the Harry Potter movie, again depicting living people. The USPS gets around the 'no living people' rule by saying they're honoring the characters, not the actors who just happen to portray them.

Actually, a few years ago the USPS was considering eliminating the rule altogether about honorees having to be deceased, and there was a rumor that one person was under serious consideration to be the first living stamp subject, but nothing ever came of it. (And the identity of the person being considered remains unknown.)

In the entertainment world, the closest a living person has come to be directly honored on a U.S. stamp was with the Celebrate The Century stamp series of the 1990s. Among the stamps issued throughout the series were two from the 1980s honoring TV shows that had their star's name in the title, Seinfeld... and The Cosby Show.





The USPS has relaxed their rule on how long you have to be dead in order to be on a stamp. Maya Angelou, who died in 2014, got a stamp in 2015.

Fix the opening post, please. The image is inside a Delphi forum and isn't showing in all browsers.

I found a larger image and updated Gary's post.

Thank you, moderator. You may take the rest of 2015 off.

I laughed.

And I, once Brotoro spake of this thread.

I'd only want a roll of the one in the upper left hand corner.
Don't care much for the others.
I might buy a roll of something like this, too.