Recommending A New US Stamp

I'm considering sending a request to the Citizen's Advisory Committee proposing a stamp be designed and printed honoring Senator Charles Sumner, a renowned abolitionist. Having never attempted this in the past, I'd like to hear any advice from the community on how to best do this. Any one else out there ever attempted/succeeded/failed in doing this? Look forward to hearing from you.

These are the basic instructions:

Carefully consider the criteria for appropriate stamp subjects (See Stamp subject selection criteria.)
Submit your proposal in writing by U.S. mail. (No in-person appeals, phone calls, or e-mails are accepted.)
Include pertinent historical information and important dates associated with the subject in your proposal.

Mail your suggestion (one topic per letter) to the address below:

Stamp Development
Attn: Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501

This is the website for more details: https://about.usps.com/who/csac/

It's all pretty easy and you will receive a letter back (I think). I have nominated three stamps - none have become stamps, but all three received a positive response from USPS noting the ideas were under consideration.

Best of luck.

Good luck and let us know if you get a response. I don't see it happening given at first glance he has four strikes against him already but miracles occur.

I would love to know exactly what you think those four strikes are…….

Yes, I'd also like to hear about the "four strikes"

Yes, I'm not aware of them either.

Charles Sumner and Thad Stevens are two obvious candidates. Perhaps the post office thinks they'd be uncomfortable amongst all the slave-owners.

Some people here are clearly uncomfortable with him. Perhaps because he did not live his life in a manner that a certain segment of the population pretends to think is not to their standards of pretend morality.

Sex
Skin color
Political Party
Assisting Colonization

ha ha ha ha, the strike is being against slavery, which we officially Do Not Mention in this administration. The other 4 would be positives for him to be sure.

Another wasted topic of ideological rubbish.

My, we are uncomfortable, aren't we?

Sex=male. even a quick look at the past issues would show that being male has never stopped people from being on a stamp.
Skin color=white. This too has never stopped anyone from being on a stamp.
Political Party=He was a founding member of the Republican Party. Surely that cannot bother you?
Assisting colonization=That hasn't stopped anyone either. And being a strong Abolitionist will surely work in his favor.

What color is the sky in your world, revcollector?

Blue, unless it is cloudy. Apparently not the case in yours. What exactly did I write which would cause you to think otherwise? Everything I wrote can be easily checked by anyone.

Then my question to you is during the last several years, how many white males were honored with a stamp when they were not a president nor winner of some international or national award of significance. I will start you out, William F. Buckley. Now how many non-white males were so illustrated on a stamp, how many females were shown of all skin colors and how many colonizer creators? The proportions are far from reflective of population percentages of the USA nor done in a balance way. Stamp subjects are political, or emotional, not merit based and as such will always cater to certain whims of the moment, not logic nor merit. Even when a subject is selected, it is not offered fully, for example the greatest win of Ali was his SCOTUS case, not his boxing. Likewise for some, a blind eye is turned, seeing the outrage about 'current file releases' I just ask, why during the same time period, did we chose to honor a publicly self avowed pimp on a stamp?

So again I state the strikes I mentioned are strikes, strikes ignored due to political expediency at times, but for now they remain strikes even as you feign naive political understanding.