Living Persons Now Allowed On US Stamps

I apologize if I missed this discussion here already (been busy), but cover story in Oct. 12 Linn's Stamp News indicates that new rules from Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee have removed wording that prevented living persons from being honored on new U.S. stamps.

Linn's interviews with USPS folks, including director of Stamp Services, confirmed that this means living persons will be considered.

Yikes - this is a horrid and unneeded step ... went down this road 15 years ago and most people with good sense hated it, and USPS rolled it back. (Still hate it.)

Please weigh in. (Why does this seem politically motivated to serve someone who likes his name on everything from monuments to money to Passports to Bibles?)

Many will welcome a Sydney Sweeney stamp.

The motivation could be purely to increase sales. Remember the Elvis stamp of the 1990s?

Countless past stamps have been politically motivated, so I don't see how that's relevant, even though you cite no evidence of a political motive. FDR, for example, pressed the POD multiple times to issue stamps for people or events he favored.

I can't imagine anyone even pretending that this is not a deliberate idea for one person and one person only. Sure, Roosevelt asked for it, but he never got it. There have been some accidental occasions, particularly the army and navy issues after WWII, but this is obvious to everyone, even those who pretend it is not.

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