Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Flags on Stamps [was Re: Things I never thought would disappear] Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:10:55 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:10:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be517d3e085b002dd47e7a524140eebe"; logging-data="3954392"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+u5MbrxFGLrza9QLayO679" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ZCHJXi+9LVkFmDskOV78D16SlA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2554 On 10/11/24 9:21 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Paul Dormer wrote: >> In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>, >> jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote: >> >>> Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing >>> an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special >>> stamps *had* a name. >> >> Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them. There are >> commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones. King Charles >> started appearing on stamps last year. > > The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war > putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion. Does > anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing > of Cambodia? > --scott Actually, they *don't* have a flag on them. Or rather, they do not have an exact image of a flag; it is also fluttering or folded in some way so that it is not truly a flag. If it were, as sure as God made little green apples, someone would complain that this allowed people to disrespect the flag by discarding envelopes. -- No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him. -Mohamad Safa