Stamp Dealer Trying To Get USPS To Issue Taylor Swift Stamp

Well, then if the guy is really chomping at the bit for a Taylor Swift stamp, there's a way to expedite the process.

Maybe they should wait ten years to come up with better ideas because I swear some of the recent rushed VIP stamps have been HIDEOUS (RBG).

UK just issued the Spice Girls stamps. Wouldn't be a huge stretch for the US to do something similar. But I personally like the no living persons rule. Nothing against Taylor Swift or any other living person, but living people still have a chance to make grave mistakes that could stain their legacy. Better not to take those risks on our stamps. But on the other hand, honoring living people could potentially lead to more stamp recalls and other funny ways to create rarities.

The UK's abandonment of the "no living persons" rule (previously accidentally infringed) has not, I suspect, led to more than an indifferent shrug. After all, most of us never see these stamps on a day-to-day basis. Royal Mail presumably generates some cash from a combination of the diminishing number of stamp collectors buying any new issues and fans of the particular subject (Spice Girls, Lord of the Rings etc). And that's it. The roof doesn't fall in.

I wondered about that GeoffHa in the UK. Loved the Dr. Who Stamps, the Brit musical acts and others. Very much fun to find these postally used to so at least some people mailed them! In the US I can see some strange things happening if it became a free-for-all. People could "buy" to put themselves on a stamp kind of thing so maybe it's good that there are rules!

landoquakes - if you like Dr Who, have a look at this ancient (1978) Sunday Times "A Life in the Day" cutting with Tom Baker. These were usually deeply bland, whereas this is hilarious

http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/9...ay_Times.jpg

I still recall Gaston and his splendid moustache.

That sounds about right! Thank you for sharing that. Is that Gaston behind the bar in the photo?
Tom Baker: the UK Taylor Swift of 1978? ;)

Indeed it is. The pub was a favourite haunt of the great and not-so-good - Francis Bacon et al - as was the Colony Club.