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

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:08:16 -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:

>========== 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.
>

I guess the USPS needs to make money.  So far I can't complain about
their offerings.

But if I were on this committee, I'd vote against putting the Billster
on a stamp.

-- 
Erick Andrews