Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Steven Musil writes at Cnet that the US Postal Service hopes Steve Jobs can do for it what he once did for Apple as the late Apple co-founder will be featured on a commemorative US postage stamp along with Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis Presley, and James Brown. The former Apple CEO's stamp is still in the design stages and will be released at some point in 2015. Jobs, who passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, has also been posthumously honored for his visionary achievements with a special Grammy Merit Award and a Disney Legends Award. Jobs was also inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, has had a building at Pixar named after him, and was featured in an exhibit at the US Patent Office Museum. "The profitable first class mail business has been decimated by email over the past decade, thanks in no small part to the contributions of Steve Jobs and Apple," writes Derek Kessler. "It's no small feat to be so impactful that the USPS feels compelled to honor you despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business.""

Comments

Obviously..

[Anonymous Coward]

... the stamp will be a little bit more expensive than usual and it comes only in 2 colors.

Re: Obviously..

[Anonymous Coward]

And don't forget the rounded corners!!!

Re:Obviously..

[Anonymous Coward]

despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business

Yes, all the advances made in email, texting & IMing were made possible by Apple.
No wonder journalists are considered a joke these days.

Re:Obviously..

[Anonymous Coward]

No Forever Stamps either. You'll definitely have to buy another one in a few months.

Re:Obviously..

[SpankiMonki]

Don't forget a stamp for Michael Jackson. It could even make a "hee hee" sound when licked.

Re:Obviously..

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

It will only be available in one color, that no one really wants, to begin with, and then ~6 months later, it will become available in the color you really do want, forcing you to buy a second roll of stamps... That's what the USPS is counting on - selling twice as many stamps!

Re:Obviously..

[russbutton]

I dunno. Will his ego fit into a 3/4" square?

Re:Obviously..

[Concerned Onlooker]

As long as you're going for novelty why not a Jerry Garcia stamp? When you lick it you're dosed with a small amount of LSD. Initially the stamp is simply a black and white image, but after a few minutes, wow!

Re:Obviously..

[Stormy Dragon]

Also, it will only work with Apple envelopes.

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone can give his backside a lick.....

Rod Serling

[Megane]

I was going to mention that Rod Serling needed a stamp, too. There's been a petition since 1988. But apparently he finally got one in 2009, so we can finally send our mail to... The Twilight Zone.

Stamp will cost $4

[hessian]

Stamp will cost $4, do the same thing that $0.49 stamp does but have stylistic design. If anything goes wrong, you throw the whole letter out and buy a new one based on someone else's refurbished mail. If you mention this bad experience online, ten thousand Steve Jobs fanboys attack your inbox with gay pornography to "open your mind."

Chinese Stamp?

[ad454]

Considering that apple out-sourced all of their manufacturing overseas, it seems that China and not the USA should be the ones honouring Steve Jobs with a stamp.

Alternatively, if the USPS wants to honour Steve Jobs in a historically accurate way, they could design the stamp in the USA, have China produce the stamps, and then sell those Chinese made stamps to Americans.

DRM, copyright, trademarked

[Teun]

How long before Apple sues the USPS for copyright infringement and Trademark dilution?

Maybe they'll be OK with the stamp DRM'ed.

Pathetic

[AntiBasic]

Yes, let's honor a "man" who was a billionaire who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence for 17 years, while she and her mother lived paycheck to paycheck. While this was going on, he named a computer after her.

Re:Pathetic

[Grey Geezer]

I kind of agree. Even without the personal baggage, I'd feel better if our stamps honored contributions to humanity, not stylistic creativity, monopolistic business strategies, or modern day robber baron philosophy. I recognize his contribution to technological progress, I just don't think, on balance, that we should honor him with a stamp. That's just my gut reaction...I could be wrong.

Re:Forget Jobs

[rubycodez]

Bieber stamp: Costs $4 but is worthless for postage, looks like a drunk lesbian, adhesive has bad taste and won't stick to envelopes

instead of artsy fartsy designer

[rubycodez]

shouldn't Woz be on a stamp for whatever technological and contribution to progress the Apple systems have made?

Re:instead of artsy fartsy designer

[pauljlucas]

It's generally not a good idea to commemorate a living person because they still have the potential to end up in a scandal or do something embarrassing.

Dennis Ritchie instead!

[rstanley]

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.

Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.

Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?

Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm...

Re:Dennis Ritchie instead!

[phantomfive]

It isn't about honoring him, exactly; when they put someone famous on the stamp, people will want to collect the stamps. That's why they chose Jobs, because it will essentially be a money maker for the post office.

What about Dennis Ritchie?

[Punto]

He died the same year, and was way more important than Steve Jobs.