“Made in the USA.”
I know misprinted stamps are a hot collectors item… But…
What’s up with this?
Found at It Ain’t Holy Water. Yep. It’s real.
I couldn’t really believe my eyes, so I started at the usps page and there it is on the front page. Yep. It’s real.
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Normally they strike through the price of the postage on sample pictures to help prevent counterfeiting but this is just eerie.
Especially in this political climate.
kind of crazy, I can’t wait to hear the entire story.
They are struck through because those images are stamp sized.
It is to prevent counterfeiting via color laser printer.
And yes, the image is eerie and maybe prophetic.
Right. Note the lack of postage price – they’re “forever” stamps, i.e. good for first class postage “forever”, regardless of future rate hikes. (Man, it’d take superhuman photoshop skillz to delete them strokes before printing your own postage.)
They have a stroke through the word “forever” on depictions of other “Forever” stamps on the USPS page as well.
Portencious, maybe, BUT, methinks it’s either as Kris and Mech opined on counterfeiting, or some Wiseass in IT is making a statement. The Purchase point looks like this:
The stamp that sez *Equality* should keep the slash thru it——–for selling to “white guys”; no?
And yet, there are no strike-throughs on the framed prints, or elsewhere. Maybe Crazy Joe got appointed to head up the postal service …
Sooo It’s just so you know that it’s not a forever stamp?
I am sure that counterfeiting is the reason for the strikethrough, since all of the other “forever” stamp images have it crossed out as well.
It is a little creepy, though, even if it is coincidental to the political climate.
Ok — you guys make sense. Tks for talking me off the ledge.
*Wipes brow*
Whew!
Ledge?! What ledge? I thought it was kinda breezy up there and me without my harness and ropes, oy.
Welp, real or not, I’m using my cat-food-money to buy the whole set!
ME: YOU’RE IN MY SPOT!
CAT: N0 I’M N0TT THIS IS MY SPOT
ME: BUT IT’S MY COUCH!
CAT: nO IT’S NOT. IT’S mY C0uCH.
ME: LISTEN, I’M THE ONE WHO WENT OUT AND WORKED LONG, HARD HOURS TO EARN THE MONEY TO BUY THIS COUCH… NOT TO MENTION SCHLEPPING IT AROUND HALF THE DAMN COUNTY TO GET IT HERE!
[I'm trying to break the cat of the all-caps thing.]
CAT: I DON’T CARE. IT’S MY COUCH
ME: OK, YOU CAN HAVE THE DAMN COUCH. I THINK I’LL JUST EAT THIS WHOLE CAN OF TUNA FISH BY MYSELF THEN.
CAT: FINE. YOU CAN HAVE THE COUCH, BUT PLEASE WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE. I’M JUST TRYING TO DO MY JOB.
ME: JOB?!!!!??? WHAT FUCKING ‘JOB’? YOU’VE NEVER HAD A JOB IN YOUR LIFE!!!
cAT: i’M A CAT. THAT’S MY JOB.
^^^Your Cat is a Congressman?
If by “forever” you mean “as long as the USPS is solvent” then yeah.
I just bought a book of those yesterday!
Man, almost did a Fred Sanford / ‘Lizabeth bit.
Hog– Change the dose. You’re arguing with a CAT!
Nobody’s ever won one of those arguments.
Someone needs to tell Postmaster Sigmund I can see the undergarments ‘neath his dress.
I’m waiting for
HopeandChange.Had a wet dream last night! I dreamed the Post Office went tits up an nobody in the private sector would accept mail addressed to the fucking INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE!!!