Thursday, September 02, 2004

Custom stamps push the envelope
Would you lick Slobodan Milosevic? Linda Tripp? Now, apparently you could, thanks to a new custom stamp service from Stamps.com. Launched last month, Stamps.com's service lets customers put wedding photos and pet portraits on their postage, a notion that The Smoking Gun's Web site finds inappropriate. "Nobody's dog deserves to be on a stamp," is how they open their prolonged juvenile diatribe.

Now just wait a minute.... I put Bear the Dog's picture on his own personal stamp and my cuter than cute, not-so-little, hairy marshmallow is worth every nickel (or thirty seven cents per stamp, plus service fee) it cost. (And it's not cheap!) As far as I know, the folk at The Smoking Gun are (or at least should be) old enough to understand that anything can be done wrongly. But it's not the fact of having a privilege to do something that's inappropriate, it's abusing that privilege that makes it so. Then again, they did their best to abuse the privilege as much as possible to get their story so they should probably know that as well. By the way... You don't need to lick anything. They're self-stick stamps. Hate it when they can't even get the basics correct.


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