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Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp

Posted by timothy on from the ship-that-turns-on-a-dime dept.

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.""

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  1. Obviously.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re: Obviously.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And don't forget the rounded corners!!!

    2. Re:Obviously.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    3. Re:Obviously.. by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    4. Re:Obviously.. by russbutton · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    5. Re:Obviously.. by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Also, it will only work with Apple envelopes.

  2. Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Rod Serling by Megane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Stamp will cost $4 by hessian · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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  5. DRM, copyright, trademarked by Teun · · Score: 4, Funny
    How long before Apple sues the USPS for copyright infringement and Trademark dilution?

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

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  6. Pathetic by AntiBasic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Pathetic by Grey+Geezer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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  7. instead of artsy fartsy designer by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    1. Re:instead of artsy fartsy designer by pauljlucas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  8. Dennis Ritchie instead! by rstanley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:Dennis Ritchie instead! by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  9. What about Dennis Ritchie? by Punto · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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