Steve Jobs On A US Postage Stamp?

Here's an article suggesting that Steve Jobs the founder of Apple should be on a postage stamp:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/he...ostage-stamp

Well, he's definitely a worthy subject, and it would have the Apple fans lining up to buy them. It would be a good move in a lot of ways by the USPS.

Although it's kind of ironic, in a way. Because of his technical innovations and marketing skill, Jobs is probably more responsible than anyone else for the decline in mail volume that is so vexing the Postal Service today.

According to The Washington Post, February 20th. he has ready been approved for a stamp in 2015 by the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee.

My thoughts exactly. I would lean toward a series of stamps honoring 50 years of Apple.
Tom

I think they ought to just stick with Ben Franklin or George Washington. Heck Peirce would be a better candidate than Jobs for a stamp! Just my twisted opinion anyway....lol

For whatever reason, the news media seems to have picked up on a Steve Jobs stamp above all others that appeared in the Washington Post list, including all of the Music Icons celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin -- and even a re-issue of Elvis Presley.

Personally, I never put a Steve Jobs stamp high on any list, but in searching the news media about it over the past few days, I see it has made headlines not only in the US, but in Canada, the UK and even Africa. I guess celebrity status is different to different people.

I've been pondering this issue for the past week, and I made my verdict. He shall be deemed to be a good topic for a stamp.

I figured most people, that article included only sees him holding the iphone, ipad, and whatever. But this is not a good viewpoint, as things such a google glass could be even more pervasive.
No, I think he's a good subject because he gave us the home computer. He thought people like all of us here would be on a home computer at some point. Celebrate him for the Macintosh, or the Lisa, etc etc.
And on that line, I want to see Wozniack, Gates, Allen, etc on a pane, and I want to see the original Microsoft pc, Macintosh, and so forth. A stamp with an orignal floppy disk(5 inch not 3.25").
These folks weren't a fad, and they didn't change us, but change the world.

Although I can easily go the other way, and go on about automation, and the machines this and that, I'm thinking of rewriting this better and sending this suggestion to the stamp advisory committee in some fashion. I really hope they don't give us a stamp of a black turtlenecked jobs, give us a young one where he poses with the computer.

A square 5 1/4" stamp would be cool. Perhaps a strip with a 5 1/4" drive, a 3 1/2" drive, a CD-ROM, A USB Drive, and then cloud storage.

Now you're shifting away the focus from Jobs. The idea however is a pretty darn good one but I think it would have to include the other computer of the era the Commodore 64 which is what I got started on in 1984 I believe. It was complete with dual 5.25 floppy drives, the dot matrix printer and I was one of the first to go online. The speed as I remember was 28kps.
Tom

Classic computers sheet:

Commodore 64, Atari 800. Apple II, TI 99/4A, Timex Sinclair, TRS-80.

If Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and Andrew Mellon were put on a stamp, I have no problem with Jobs being put on a stamp. Innovative in his field of business.

Personally, I would prefer USPS honors people whose work benefited society rather than wasted their time with the products they sold. Let's face it, are iPhones, iPods and iPads etc. really necessary?
In case he will be honored with a stamps I hope USPS shows the working conditions of Apple's factories in China on the selvedge...

My brainstorm has yielded some interesting suggestions on here. I wonder if there's any good anniversaries in the future for historical computer pane of stamps or if this is just a regular "random" thing to commemorate.

While I do love my Apple (though not what it cost me) I do have to say I'm getting a little tired of the deification of Steve Jobs.
Maybe some post offices (Canada included) should put out fewer, better quality stamps, rather than saturating the market with popular figures. It's turning into Post Office Idol!
I'll shut up now...

Yes to this sheet!