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Your Face on Somebody Else's Stamp
Thousands of people submit their faces, and unique postage stamps are printed with each person's face and a confirmable watermark or border. | |
The postal service is always on the hunt for new designs to put
on
their stamps. Here's an idea: put people's faces on them.
What I'm suggesting is that the postal service advertise a new
series
of stamps printed with pictures of random people's faces: blank
faces, maniacally expressive
faces, faces disguised with fake
moustaches and Groucho glasses, and anything in between. The
catch is that no stamp is alike. Every stamp in the series is
absolutely
unique and has a different person's face on it.
In order to do this, people would be offered the opportunity to
their
submit their own faces. On the postal service's website, you
could
enter your own mug shot for use on a stamp. If they really
wanted to
make a profit, then you might have to pay a small fee of about
a
dollar to get your face printed on a stamp (personally, I would
be
willing to expend a dollar, if only to have my visage stare out
of
some stranger's envelope).
Of course, each submitted photograph would be evaluated, to
see if
it's fit for usage. Those that make the grade would then be
copied
onto a stamp that is packaged and sent out into circulation.
There
would be a limit of one stamp per person's face. Celebrities'
faces
would be rare finds, sold on Ebay for hundreds; alternatively,
you
could seek out the stamp with your own face on it, to have as a
keepsake.
Stamp collectors would go insane.
here ya go.
http://www.royalmai...d_postage_stamps_uk
[po, May 11 2010]
vanity postage stamps
vanity_20postage_20stamps
Same idea. [phoenix, May 11 2010]
yeah
http://photo.stamps...re/learn-more/real/
[xandram, May 11 2010]
I still don't see what is so new about this idea...
http://cdn.ihatethe...-postage-stamps.jpg
[xandram, May 11 2010]
legends
http://www.postage-...an-music-series.jpg
[xandram, May 11 2010]
idol
http://lh3.ggpht.co...20Stamp1%5B5%5D.jpg
[xandram, May 11 2010]
faces
http://seoulbeats.c...1207_seoulbeats.jpg
[xandram, May 11 2010]
USPS custom stamps
http://www.usps.com...stomizedpostage.htm
[mouseposture, May 12 2010]
from an idea I deleted yesterday because I didn't feel like arguing...
https://postalinspe...essroom/wanted.aspx
faces for your stamps... [xandram, May 13 2010]
[link]
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// Stamp collectors would go insane. // |
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Tautology. Stamp collectors are already insane. |
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Perhaps it would drive them sane, then. [+] |
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Rather better than this would be Someone Else's Face On A Stamp. Their actual face, squished down to about 20 mm x 30mm. Obviously you'd have to peel it off their skull and shrink it down and dry it first, but that would be part of the fun. |
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this has been so baked for so long those 7 buns should be removed!!! [see links from other bakers] |
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I think you're missing the point, [xandram]. It's not about getting your own face
on a stamp that you'll use. It's about submitting your face to be put on somebody
else's stamp. |
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Though... [8th of 7] is on to something, too. |
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Nowhere near as much fun as stamping on somebody else's face though. |
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Baked - if you're the Queen |
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I guess I'm missing the point...and the postage. |
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NOT THE SAME IDEA: I was hoping the the distinction was
clear. This is not a personal service; it's a program where
stamps are printed with faces and you get a random face
instead of your own. |
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you might care to change the title then to "A face on a postage stamp" might make all the difference. |
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in that case - why a real face? an artist could just draw any old face. |
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The attraction is that you get to know that the face belongs
to another real person just like you. |
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// another real person just like you // |
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Wouldn't that be a bit, well, creepy ? It's almost encouraging identity theft. |
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... says someone who denies he's a real person. |
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[+] there's something either basically democratic... or basically socialistic (so hard to tell the difference), about random pictures of citizens on postage stamps. |
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//coming from an american// north north american. |
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But I like the idea of all citizens having their mugs on postage stamps. |
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OK, well maybe I understand the difference, but it's not much of a difference...and I agree with [po] about the title causing confusion. The catch that no stamp is alike is why it would never happen, because the Postal Service can't even afford delivery these days, yet alone make one of kind stamps. |
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A cheaper alternative would be to stick a postage stamp on your face. |
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\\that no stamp is alike is why it would never happen, because the Postal Service can't even afford delivery these days, yet alone make one of kind stamps.\\
[DW] suggested that customers might need to pay a small fee, and that fee could be calculated to cover the costs. As long as the photo management database was set up properly, the logistics wouldn't be too much more complicated than [xandram]'s link above. |
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I second others. This should be called "Your Face on Somebody Else's Stamp" |
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Logistically, I actually do think this is possible: if the process
were automated, then it wouldn't cost much. |
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You can already buy stamps with a picture you
supply <link> -- so this can be done without involvement of
the Post Office. Just a web site that let's you upload a photo
of your face, charges you for N stamps (plus a little), buys N
custom stamps from the Post Office web site, sending the
Post Office somebody *else's* photo, but giving the PO *your*
address for delivery. |
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