[SMGFan]

I guess next year we will have stamps showing “Cats at Work” :) - do not worry, I like cats.

[steelyourfaith]

bttt

[Mobties]

I’m sure I read somewhere recently that the Postal Service had decided to drop the long observed practice of issuing stamps only for deceased so that living celebrities — like Pamela Anderson — could be featured on stamps. A decision, I think, that had something to do with increasing revenue.

It looks like that decision has been rescinded.

[Dr. Sivana]

They capitalized e.e. cummings on the poets series. SHAME!

[tunedin]

The flag stamp saying “freedom” with the forever crossed out next to the 2012 is ominous.

[gunnyg]

dump.em!!!!!!!!!!

[ml/nj]

Since I don't recognize many of the names being honored in this manner, I thought it might be interesting to compare this list to the list for 1962 when I was a much less aware 15 year-old but didn't find any mysteries in the stamps being issued that year.

Arizona Statehood
Charles Evans Hughes
Seattle World's Fair
New Mexico Statehood
Project Mercury
World United Against Malaria
Louisiana Statehood
The Homestead Act
Brien McMahon - Atomic Energy Act - Peaceful Uses
Sam Rayburn
National Apprenticeship Program
Higher Education
Christmas Wreath
Winslow Homer
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold "Error"

Okay. Now that I've looked, I must admit that I probably didn't know who Brien McMahon was because I still wouldn't know without Google. (He was a CT Senator who died in 1952.)

But my original impression stands. I think it is stupid that the Post Office finds the need to glorify nonentities.

ML/NJ