D'oh! U.S. Postal Service stuck with 682 million Simpsons stamps

By Bloomberg News ^ | August 21, 2012

[SMGFan]

The money-losing U.S. Postal Service guessed that TV cartoon character Homer Simpson and his family were twice as popular as Elvis Presley when it came to sales of commemorative stamps.

As Homer would say, “D’oh!” In a move that wasted $1.2 million in printing costs, the service produced 1 billion of “The Simpsons” stamps and sold 318 million.

[Slings and Arrows]

All sorts of third world countries issue stamps of celebs and sports stars that have zero connection to the issuing country purely to cash in on collectors.

Case in point:

[big'ol_freeper]

D’oh!