USPS may destroy 'unsafe' stamps

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/usps-to-destroy--unsafe--stamps-205228348.html

Run! Jump! Leap! It all seems pretty innocent, but the U.S. Postal Service is faced with a decision to destroy its series of "Just Move" stamps because of safety concerns, according to Linns Stamp News, and we're not talking about a paper cut on your tongue.

The colorful cartoon stamps, based on Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, were intended to encourage an active lifestyle and raise awareness about physical activity. But the images on some of the stamps are not kosher with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, according to the stamps designer, Eli Noyes, who told Linns, "Apparently the President's Council [on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition] and the Let's Move people saw them and had issues with them."

The stamps in question: a skateboarder sans kneepads, a swimmer doing a cannonball, and a kid doing a headstand without a helmet, and because of these issues, it's likely you won't ever get to send your mail with these particular adhesives.

A spokesman at the USPS told Yahoo the stamps are sitting at a printer in upstate New York, awaiting a decision on their fate.

What do you think? Is eliminating these stamps unnecessary. Is it the right thing to do? Do you even use stamps anymore?

[Neil]

You're supposed to use a helmet to do a headstand now?  Man you guys are fucked up.

[Eddie Teach]

Is eliminating these stamps unnecessary. Is it the right thing to do? Do you even use stamps anymore?

Yes. No. Not really.

[grumbler]

You're supposed to use a helmet to do a headstand now?  Man you guys are fucked up.

There have been a lot of silly issues raised lately, but this is amongst the silliest.

[PDH]

Give them all lawn dart sets from the early 70s.  All the safety issues will be sorted out.

[CountDeMoney]

Once again, it's lawyers to the rescue, but some of those stamps are a little dangerous.

The "bounce/dribble" kid playing basketball is committing some sort of Hack-A-Shaq personal foul.  That's just wrong.   And look at the kid doing the Cannonball...looks like he's Cannonballing right into pavement.  That's just wrong as well.

[Ed Anger]

Give them all lawn dart sets from the early 70s.  All the safety issues will be sorted out.

Or a croquet mallet. Raised high to strike some goober's head.

[derspiess]

You're supposed to use a helmet to do a headstand now?  Man you guys are fucked up.

Yeah, this is another sign that our time has passed

[garbon]

And look at the kid doing the Cannonball...looks like he's Cannonballing right into pavement.  That's just wrong as well.

I know pavement in B'moe might look all lumpy like that but it generally isn't like that.

[CountDeMoney]

Shove your Manhattan pretentiousness.

[mongers]

Pity, as it's a nice set of stamps from UPS. 

[garbon]

Shove your Manhattan pretentiousness.

That's all I have.

[Malthus]

Replace the set with a stylized kid-wrapped-in-bubblewrap motif. 

And make the kid fatter. This is America, goddamit!

[garbon]

Pity, as it's a nice set of stamps from UPS. 

Are they? I mean the physical activities bit is alright but the actual stylizing isn't that great.

[viper37]

You're supposed to use a helmet to do a headstand now?  Man you guys are fucked up.

There have been a lot of silly issues raised lately, but this is amongst the silliest.

don't you think of the children?