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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.22 09:01 PM, Erick Andrews typed: ============

>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?

   There usually is, unless congress specifically requests that one be 
made (if my memory is correct anyway). The USPS is almost totally 
independent from the government now, financially self-sufficient and 
pretty much free of oversight except in rare cases like the one I 
mentioned above. Whatever Richard Nixon may or may not have been overall, 
we can credit him with modernizing the postal service - bad as it is, it 
would be much worse if the thing hadn't been reorganized in the 70s.



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