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pretty enough to lick, or at least self-adhere

via the Smoking Gun, t.s.o.a. has learned that the US Postal Service is poised to allow third part vendors to produce postage that users can customize themselves with any uploadable image and then use on their angry letters to TV Guide, blackmail payments, ransom notes, &c. stamps.com is one of the first places you can do this. what a fantastic idea; i can't believe it's taken them this long to come up with it, though it opens a Pandora's Box of possibilities for the creative, bored and sociopathic. the folks over at TSG naturally already had some fun with this during the trial run, which leads me to believe that there will be some censorship involved. the press release merely says that "USPS will require vendors to produce a product that meets current postal regulations and conclusively prove that all images produced and services provided abide by all federal laws, including copyright laws", so what that means is open to interpretation, but i doubt that i'll be able to get any stamps with this photo on them:

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