[Am-info] Windows XP at the Post Office (OT)

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:24:53 -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:

>========== On 2002.01.22 06:42 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>>>   Looney Tunes stamps.
>>
>>More people seem to know about this then ought to, if you ask me.
>>
>>All right, so, when does Bill get his own Looney Tune stamp?
>
>    Some code somewhere says a person must be deceased for X years before 
>the postal service can make a stamp with them on it. So, not quite yet... 
>Apparently the AOLTW Looney Toons franchise is dead enough to use on a 
>stamp, since the company only uses it for advertising these days anyway.
>

Yes, but Looney Toons were never really dead or alive in the sense
of Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, etc.

Agreed.  Doubt that Gates ever will be on a stamp; neither JD Rockefeller,
JP Morgan, et al, but I can't be sure.  The Wright Bros. were.

I just attribute it more to modern pop culture.  Bugs Bunny is cool.

Maybe there's some committee who select them for the USPS?

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Erick Andrews