The U.S. Postal Service has removed the regulation that a person needs to be
dead to be honored on a stamp. Maybe we can get Andy on a stamp now.
 

Paul Gilkes

Sidney, Ohio

 


U.S. Postal Service to Allow America's Favorite Living Celebrities on Stamps


Published September 27, 2011

|FoxNews.com

Americans will soon have a chance stay stuck on their favorite celebrities
in the form of a U.S.
<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/27/us-postal-service-to-allow-americas-fa
vorite-living-celebrities-on-stamps/?test=latestnews#> postage stamp.

The U.S.  <http://www.foxnews.com/topics/postal-service.htm#r_src=ramp>
Postal Service is reportedly changing its longstanding policy to allow
images of living famous people, like popular music artists and politicians,
to appear on postal stamps.

USPS executive Stephen Kearney told Reuters Monday that he hopes to have at
least one "living subject" to have his or her first stamp by 2012.

The old policy required that a person be dead for at least five years before
they could be memorialized on postage, according to the New York Post. 

The newspaper reported that the change is part of an effort to increase
postal
<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/27/us-postal-service-to-allow-americas-fa
vorite-living-celebrities-on-stamps/?test=latestnews#> stamp collecting and
raise revenue.

The USPS is reportedly encouraging people to mail their nominations in or
post them on  <http://www.foxnews.com/topics/facebook.htm#r_src=ramp>
Facebook and  <http://www.foxnews.com/topics/twitter.htm#r_src=ramp>
Twitter.

The USPS is also allowing ordinary Americans to upload photos on the USPS
website to create postage stamps using their own pictures.



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