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Subject: Flags on Stamps [was Re: Things I never thought would disappear]
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:10:55 -0400
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On 10/11/24 9:21 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> 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