Who is old enough to be sending traditional hardcopy Christmas/New Year’s cards this year? Good news for fellow Boomers: USPS.com has the new Kwanzaa stamps.
But maybe your friends and family would rather learn more about fentanyl?
Sunflowers, which the USPS tells us are “native” (immigrant humans make every native-born American’s life better; immigrant plants are disastrous, though):
For those passionate about social justice, the bad news is that there is still no George Floyd commemorative stamp. Nor is there a stamp regarding the genocide committed by the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell. Perhaps these lowrider stamps will be some consolation, though I don’t think our Honda Odyssey qualifies:
Speaking of lowriders, here’s a picture of one from a October 2026 Cars and Coffee (see Cars and Coffee at the Birthplace of the IBM PC (Boca Raton, Florida) here in Palm Beach County. Notice the hateful transphobia (the implication that a pregnant person who is “expectant” identifies as a “mother”):
Paint detail on another lowrider at the event:
And a 1979-ish Chevrolet Monte Carlo:
Politics by stamp is a new one for me. A family friend is philatelist and I don’t think he would think these are valuable.
$100 million dollar business idea: Political postcards. Say you go to Portland, Oregon. You can mail family and friends beautiful pictures of the landscape with political slogans and talking point super-imposed. I looked this up on Google and all the results seem to be blatantly political and nothing postcardy (e.g. postcard that says “vote for John Smith” with a picture of him and some party colors).
I see a lot of pros in terms of increased revenue streams for small businesses. Can we get together with venture capital to spin this next amazing business idea into a country-wide phenomenon?
Stamps will not be issued for disasters or “individuals associated with religious undertakings.” The best we can do for Saint George Floyd is a “Know the Facts About Fentanyl” stamp.
https://about.usps.com/publications/pub226/pub226_tech_005.htm
When the unjust prohibition on marijuana is lifted nationally, my vote is for a marijuana leaf stamp, issued on 4/20. Meanwhile the struggle continues…the struggle to get off the couch, the struggle to keep potato chip crumbs off my tie-dyed shirt, the struggle to find change in the couch to buy a couple of sinsemilla nugs in Michigan, etc. Tobacco cigarettes ($12/pack) are almost as expensive as weed, so we are making Progress.
Separately, but somewhat related…been learning about Josephine Baker. Not sure if Kwanzaa had been invented yet to appease the blacks. I learned that technically her French passport was invalid because her marriage to a Frenchman was not legal. Her first marriage was at 13, but wasn’t legal either. Still, France issued a stamp of her. She was an important French-resistance fighter and sultry dancer, both.
The post office puts a strikethrough through “Forever” in order to foil the dopiest criminals attempting to mail correspondence for free by printing out unretouched pictures of stamps?