Postal Fail

[marmar]

from the NY Times:




As if further proof were needed that New York is not the center of the universe.

The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas.

You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original, the one off the tip of Lower Manhattan that for 125 years has welcomed millions of New York’s huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Instead, they accidentally used the 14-year-old statue that presides over thousands of weary gamblers a week.

The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/us/15stamp.html?_r=1&em

[cleanhippie]

1. as an aside: Is not collecting stamps a hobby?

[GKirk]

3. Why the question? n/t

[cleanhippie]

4. Just a play off a quote in the article.

The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists.

[PBS Poll-435]

2. That is the most awesome thing I have read this week

Thanks for posting it!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Here are both pics

the mouth, nose, eyes ( essentially the face) ARE different.

The real statue:



and the one on the stamp

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6. They must have hired whoever did the Walter Reed thing at the last GOP convention.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. I don't know. I think it may be more fitting for modern America.

Greed, excess and a glitzy distraction while bilking the masses out of their money. It seems the one over Vegas may represent much of America better than the original statue now.