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USPS Announces Star Wars Stamp Set
morpheus83 writes "After R2D2 letter boxes, the USPS continues the saga, as it unveiled 15 new stamps featuring Star Wars characters at Grauman's Chinese theater in Hollywood where the original Star Wars movie opened 30 years ago. The 41 cent stamps will be released on May 25, and all the 15 stamps will be issued on a single sheet resembling a movie poster."
They never even built Reagan's space weapons, how can they put them on a stamp?
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...will Han be printed first?
I was told this by a USPS worker, but he started getting a bit cranky so I walked away...
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Made specifically when you're mailing to a C3POBox.
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I'm still waiting for the Leia and Amidala playboy special.
These aren't the droid stamps we're looking for.
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Here's a link to images of the stamps themselves.
Just further proof that Star Wars is, in fact, dead.
What the heck is a "stamp" and how am I supposed to fix it onto my email? I mean, shit, if I wanted a Star Wars image in with my mail, I'd just attach one I got online instead of paying 41 cents for it.
Why on earth couldn't they have launched them on May 4th.
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and look forward to sticking it on postcards to the White House.
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I just bought a whole box of these stamps. So, I suppose that I am the biggest sap of all.
"Be a jedi or be not a jedi. There is no sap!" exclaims Yoda.
It's a trap!!!
than buying a 'star wars' stamp? I mean, even stamp collectors are going to avoid these. Feh.
I was discussing the Star Wars post boxes with someone a few days ago. We both think they're extremely clever, but they're also a rather strange bit of corporate advertising by the United States Postal Service. It didn't take long before one of us wondered if this is yet another sign that things have slipped a bit too far in favor of the service sector as far as the US economy goes. After all, the post office really doesn't have any reason to promote a film franchise (yes, I know it's an anniversary celebration and all... but it still leaves a strange taste in my mouth)
Han's should read, "It's not my fault!"
... disturbing."
Luke's, "I was going into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters!"
Leia, "Will somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?!"
Chewie, "Mraaaawwwwrrrr!"
Vader, "I find your lack of faith
Obi-Wan, "We'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements."
R2D2, *beep* *beep* *whistle* *beep* *splat*
C3PO, "I didn't know I had it in me."
For the Falcon, just the tagline: The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy!
"15 new stamps featuring Star Wars characters at Grauman's Chinese theater" - you mean this Chewbacca at Grauman's Chinese theater? he gets a stamp?
These are stamps that people will buy and never use.
It's a money making venture.
Last year, the P.O. introduced a line of famous scietist stamps. Here and gone in a month or so. I was really hoping to get a booklet of Buckminster Fuller stamps.
I guess I'll have to settle for the Lobot.
But I'd be interested to find out who is funding this. 100% of the production cost, distribution, etc. should be borne by Lucas.
Is this why stamps go up in price? To keep the marketing budget in line?
I can't get a box from Omaha to Denver in under two weeks by USPS, but they sure have purty stamps.
They're a monopoly, and should not be allowed to advertise at all. No commercials, no ads, fund from the stamps and add some value.
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A legitimate reason to lick Princess Leia
Or your mailing will end up in the dead letter office.
Okay, so... there's a Darth Maul stamp, but no Lando Calrissian stamp? How about a Jabba the Hut stamp? He certainly played a much bigger role in the series than Darth Maul did. Darth Maul, as cool as he may have looked, was almost completely insignificant to the story.
I thought there was a rule that no living person could be on a stamp, so how can there be characters on the stamps when the actors are still alive? I found this site that seems to agree with the "no living person" rule, but it isn't an official USPS site. Has this rule been changed or is it OK since they are fictional characters?
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I ordered a set of these years ago when they came out...
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Grauman's Chinese theater in Hollywood... you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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Apparently, there is a very valuable sheet of misprinted upside down x-wing stamps out there.
Putting Chewbacca stamp on letter +
Tripping and falling on letter +
Realizing the letter (including stamp) has been crumpled
= "I bent my wookie."
I've got you now!
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I hope I'm the first to say... That I'm happy that I can finally lick a wookie.
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Maybe this would explain why the post office in Royal Oak MI has painted their blue mailboxes to look like R2D2.
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and so will buy a sheet for novelty.
I will also buy several sheet to use to send postcards to some SW fanatics I know. Heh, using the stamp will drive them bonkers.
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Why no Death Star stamp? I want to put a Death Star on all my bill payments. Something rather poetic, I think.
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I want one of the Artoo mailboxes!
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One of the most talked about characters in the Star Wars Saga even above Darth Maul!
:-)
Yeah this probably relagates it to a troll post, but I could not resist typing the subject line.
Though I would have prioritized the super star destroyer far ahead of Darth Maul, and maybe do a montage with anakins/vader instead of just the vader mask.
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Not even Ewoks.
OMG! Ponies on stamps!
On the dot, today, I learned that rates are going up for mail.
There's a Boba Fett stamp. What is it with you people and Boba Fett? He's the most popular minor character EVER.
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Sometime in April, they are also releasing three limited edition pre-paid Priority Mail envelopes with Star Wars characters upon them. How many countless $3 envelopes will go unsent?
Many.
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If you use them, you go from sap to goofball.
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Vote for your favorite Jedi Stamp. (requires e-mail to confirm vote)
USPS Star Wars web site. (contains vote tally)
Pictures of said mailboxes.
what a bunch of faggots. only 8 year olds and faggots are into star wars. fucking faggots.
i like http://www.usps.com/ now. it was lacking that.. amazingness before. think post men should have lightsabers on the 25th?
Quit yelling.
Maybe if the USPS didn't feel the need to come up with a new stamp design every week (with all of the associated expenses), it wouldn't cost 41 CENTS to send a letter. I mean, it's a STAMP. It isn't a modern art masterpiece.
More nostalgia unrelated to reality. Enjoy! Oh, but pay full price.
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Where the only real heros are on celluloid.
All other countries honor their leaders, artists, scientists, and other great men. Haven't we got any world-class figures? Or do we have our heads so far up our asses that we actually think Luke Skywalker is an authentic American farm-boy hero?
On second thoughts, don't answer that. We seem to be running our government and foreign policy as an adjunct of Hollywood. You can see that Bush is itching to ride off into the sunset from Afghanistan, because that will take him into Iran!
Darth Maul stamp on a letter gives you a Darth Mail...
-- Rastignac was here.
With a Yoda stamp, your letter will need 800 years to go to destination !
(USPS is sometimes so slow...)
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Lucas may have abused the series in the minds of some people but its a feat bound to never be replicated, at least anytime soon. Still he brought forward an epic dream and who is to say he can't revise parts of it. I have read books that have later versions (some were considered classics) that had revisions or additions.
and he just isn't Star Wars...
being on USPS stamps only goes to show he is forever part of our culture
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Since this is Slashdot, and we're discussing Star Wars, I think the USPS should do one of those with Natalie Portman, naked and... actually, naked is enough. And since they'd need to know what Natalie Portman (*cough*) tastes like, I'm willing to volunteer my services.
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(I'll even attach a picture of the Death Star if it saves me 41 cents to get in touch with you)
"I thought there was a rule that no living person could be on a stamp, so how can there be characters on the stamps when the actors are still alive?"
It was Long Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away...I'm pretty sure the characters are dead by now.
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...linky below to pics of the R2D2 mailboxes:l boxes_Confirm_Rumors_104142.asp
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/R2D2_Mai
I know redneck Americans are one step down from slime mould in cultural intelligence, but do you really understand how strange the above post makes you sound?
In your mind, are Mark Hamil and Luke Skywalker one and the same thing? Do you think that once Richard Burbage died noone else could play Hamlet? Do you think that everything you see on the silver screen is true, and that one day Superman will come to save America from a succession of Evil Geniuses (tm)? I know Bush does - I didn't know that this was a general delusion in the US.
On the other hand, given that Americans think they were responsible for winning WW2 and for every heroic deed done after this, based on Hollywood propaganda, perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised.
And who is responsible for ending World War 2. I know in the MOVIES it was the United States that dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, but apparently, this is just Hollywood LIES. Please, who did bring Japan to it's knees? Was it France? The only thing the French dropped in WW2 was their rifles, right before they surrendered.
until I read this in the FAQ:
How much did the U.S. Postal Service pay Lucasfilm for the rights to Star Wars?
Nothing. The U.S. Postal Service does not pay licensing fees or royalties in the administration of its commemorative stamp program and, in this case, did not pay to honor the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars saga. Lucasfilm Ltd. and the U.S. Postal Service are working together without any monies being exchanged.
The Postal Service has a long tradition of commemorating American history, so in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars saga, this exciting new venture from the Postal Service is providing customers with new and creative ways to do business with us.
Ahah! Modern postism!
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The postal service could advertise their rates a little better, USPS First-Class Mail Rates no mention of a rate increase, and with it saying 39 cents I was thinking that the slashdot story might just be a typo, but google news had stories on the rate change.