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19 Jul 2024
08:01:55am
It's been said that a nation's stamps are a reflection of what's important to its people. The USPS Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee's descent into the trivial and frivolous is complete.


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19 Jul 2024
10:58:28am
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I think their design selections simply reflect the interests of the younger generation. Perhaps they will inspire the younger stamp collectors or at least mail something. Seems like the only stamps I see on my mail come with stamps in the envelope.

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19 Jul 2024
12:06:30pm
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"the interests of the younger generation"


When I was in University during the period of 1970 - 1979 I had several friends who were heavily into D & D. Of course back then it was not computer related but it was still a big thing in some areas. I was tempted to pick the sheet up for a friend who is now into computer war games but still remembers the D & D era quite fondly!
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19 Jul 2024
01:10:18pm

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To be honest, I do not really understand why this particular theme is so upsetting or trivial and frivolous as you call it. As far as US stamps go, there have been numerous stamps dedicated to dinosaurs, Disney characters, super heroes, star wars, famous sports personalities including football coaches (over here in the Netherlands we respond to that with "lekker belangrijk!") etc. etc. There have been stamps dedicated to popular culture for more than 30 years.
I have never been much into role playing games, but just looking at the stamps I would say these aren't the worst I have seen. And besides that, this is based on games people play and not just a marketing stunt for hyper commercial film characters.
But that is just my opinion.

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19 Jul 2024
03:29:36pm
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The game came out in the 1970's. There are many older people who have fond memories of the game. I am one of them.

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19 Jul 2024
05:37:13pm
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Great Britain is also coming out with a sheet of stamps for Dungeons and Dragons. Although I have no interest in this subject, I would bet that they will sell better than the now politically correct Henry Aaron stamp or the Alex Trebek stamp.

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19 Jul 2024
06:28:43pm
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I think these stamps were a great idea. Nerd culture rules!

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tommcf

19 Jul 2024
06:29:58pm
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Seriously? A stamp for Hank Aaron, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, is "politically correct"?

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20 Jul 2024
05:35:06am
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@Logistical1,

Love the Jim Beam in your Avatar picture! Honestly, I don't think there is ANYTHING they could put on postage stamps to get younger people interested. They simply don't care about stamps or mail for that matter. In my opinion, they never will.

@Jan-Simon,

I hear ya. You've got your opinion; that's cool. I just grew up thinking that the subjects of postage stamps were reserved for the HIGHEST ideals, our best citizens, the most important values that our society had to offer. We went from Thomas Jefferson "we hold these truths..." to Bart Simpson "eat my shorts". Not an improvement. Just another sign of the times Dawg. Additionally, why do we want to memorialize and endorse a commercially available product like Marvel Comics and D&D (produced by Hasbro)? What's next? The McDonald's stamp? the Coca-Cola Christmas stamps (oh, wait..they already did that.)?

@joshtanski,

Nerd culture, yes! We also need Garbage Pail Kids, Voltron and Big League Chew on stamps!





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20 Jul 2024
05:55:31am

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As to Santa Claus and Coca Cola: yes, that's old news in a way. The way father Christmas evolved from St. Nicholas to red cheeked chubby Santa has a lot (everything?) to do with Coca Cola marketing.

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20 Jul 2024
05:59:52am
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" that's old news in a way."



I think it applies... the USPS endorsed Coke the way they just endorsed Hasbro. I'm just not a fan.

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20 Jul 2024
06:18:24am
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I believe the USPS policy is to sell that people will buy them (some topical interest) and mail use is not one of them. The US Mint has been doing it for years. It is just for the money and little about collecting. In the past we would usuallt see ONE design, now we get many with the goal to get you to buy an entire sheet. It is like the Alex Tribek stamp. He is not even shown on the stamp. Of course, I do not think he deserves a stamp more than many other people either,

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20 Jul 2024
06:22:16am
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"I believe the USPS policy is to sell that people will buy them....It is just for the money"



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20 Jul 2024
01:20:39pm
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@ernieinjax I agree with Garbage Pail Kids, those would make a great sheet of 20 stamps. Voltron is technically Japanese, unsure if the USPS is allowed to commemorate. Transformers or He-Man/She-ra maybe. Not Big League Chew - unsure what that has to do with nerd culture, nerds do not play sports. I personally would love stamps featuring 1980s - 1990s cartoons or video games. But video games have the same problem as Voltron, a lot of the good ones were Japanese.

Here's another question - can USPS commemorate someone who is not American is they contributed something of significant international impact? I am thinking like a Shigeru Miyamoto or Linus Torvalds? They did honor Mother Theresa.

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20 Jul 2024
09:14:12pm
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Josh,
Good question. Are there any non-Americans on US stamps? I feel like I should know the answer right off the top of my head...

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20 Jul 2024
10:07:36pm
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Many people are featured on US stamps that are not US citizens. Churchill, Pulaski, Shakespeare, many explorers, foreigners who assisted with our fight for independence. There is a long list.

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Al
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21 Jul 2024
06:10:36am
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The USPS's Harry Potter stamps were the ultimate sell out in my opinion?

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21 Jul 2024
11:31:32pm
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Erniejax said, " I just grew up thinking that the subjects of postage stamps were reserved for the HIGHEST ideals, our best citizens, the most important values that our society had to offer."

In theory, yes. As you said, that's what stamps were supposed to portray. But did they? I hope that we citizens of free, democratic counties have matured enough to realize that our best-known politicians, educators, scientists, musicians, actors, soldiers, sailors, Marines, generals, admirals, artists, presidents, philosophers, explorers, poets, kings, queens, princes, princesses, authors, journalists, mathematicians, etc. are at the end of the day just people, sharing similar intelligence, desires, interests, and problems. Just as "ordinary citizens," like most of us, do not necessarily operate with the "highest ideals," neither do those "best citizens".

Read a bit of history, read some biographies and autobiographies, delve into various archives, and you'll soon learn that the people who are often greatly honoured (and remunerated) by society are not people you would want your daughter or your son to marry. You probably wouldn't want to sit down for a cup of coffee with them, loan them money, or introduce them to friends.

I consider that something like 99.9% of stamps are nothing but little propaganda labels that governmentsand oligarchs learned, long ago, they could use line their pockets. Which is to say that most stamps are political in nature.

Bob

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22 Jul 2024
02:28:59pm
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@Bob,
Never said or thought they were perfect. But many did contribute to the betterment of society.

Maybe we just scrap the idea of honoring anyone or anything on stamps and just slap a denomination/bar code everything.

JFK? Perfect man? Perfect husband?

I think not. Worthy of a stamp? You betcha.

Ernie

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Al
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23 Jul 2024
06:09:45am
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Given we have forever stamps, there is no need for endless annual refreshes except to try to sell something new. Not many have a need for wedding stamps every year (meaning same person getting married). This can apply to holiday stamps (CNY, Christmas, etc). These annual issues crowding the issues program are probably used as an excuse to not release more history relevant stamps.

If you look at the CSAC criteria many of these issues fail to meet every justification except the one general excuse clause.

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19 Jul 2024
08:01:55am

It's been said that a nation's stamps are a reflection of what's important to its people. The USPS Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee's descent into the trivial and frivolous is complete.


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19 Jul 2024
10:58:28am

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

I think their design selections simply reflect the interests of the younger generation. Perhaps they will inspire the younger stamp collectors or at least mail something. Seems like the only stamps I see on my mail come with stamps in the envelope.

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19 Jul 2024
12:06:30pm

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

"the interests of the younger generation"


When I was in University during the period of 1970 - 1979 I had several friends who were heavily into D & D. Of course back then it was not computer related but it was still a big thing in some areas. I was tempted to pick the sheet up for a friend who is now into computer war games but still remembers the D & D era quite fondly!
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19 Jul 2024
01:10:18pm

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To be honest, I do not really understand why this particular theme is so upsetting or trivial and frivolous as you call it. As far as US stamps go, there have been numerous stamps dedicated to dinosaurs, Disney characters, super heroes, star wars, famous sports personalities including football coaches (over here in the Netherlands we respond to that with "lekker belangrijk!") etc. etc. There have been stamps dedicated to popular culture for more than 30 years.
I have never been much into role playing games, but just looking at the stamps I would say these aren't the worst I have seen. And besides that, this is based on games people play and not just a marketing stunt for hyper commercial film characters.
But that is just my opinion.

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19 Jul 2024
03:29:36pm

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The game came out in the 1970's. There are many older people who have fond memories of the game. I am one of them.

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Dakota

19 Jul 2024
05:37:13pm

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

Great Britain is also coming out with a sheet of stamps for Dungeons and Dragons. Although I have no interest in this subject, I would bet that they will sell better than the now politically correct Henry Aaron stamp or the Alex Trebek stamp.

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19 Jul 2024
06:28:43pm

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I think these stamps were a great idea. Nerd culture rules!

Josh

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tommcf

19 Jul 2024
06:29:58pm

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Seriously? A stamp for Hank Aaron, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, is "politically correct"?

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20 Jul 2024
05:35:06am

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@Logistical1,

Love the Jim Beam in your Avatar picture! Honestly, I don't think there is ANYTHING they could put on postage stamps to get younger people interested. They simply don't care about stamps or mail for that matter. In my opinion, they never will.

@Jan-Simon,

I hear ya. You've got your opinion; that's cool. I just grew up thinking that the subjects of postage stamps were reserved for the HIGHEST ideals, our best citizens, the most important values that our society had to offer. We went from Thomas Jefferson "we hold these truths..." to Bart Simpson "eat my shorts". Not an improvement. Just another sign of the times Dawg. Additionally, why do we want to memorialize and endorse a commercially available product like Marvel Comics and D&D (produced by Hasbro)? What's next? The McDonald's stamp? the Coca-Cola Christmas stamps (oh, wait..they already did that.)?

@joshtanski,

Nerd culture, yes! We also need Garbage Pail Kids, Voltron and Big League Chew on stamps!





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20 Jul 2024
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As to Santa Claus and Coca Cola: yes, that's old news in a way. The way father Christmas evolved from St. Nicholas to red cheeked chubby Santa has a lot (everything?) to do with Coca Cola marketing.

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20 Jul 2024
05:59:52am

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" that's old news in a way."



I think it applies... the USPS endorsed Coke the way they just endorsed Hasbro. I'm just not a fan.

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Al
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20 Jul 2024
06:18:24am

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

I believe the USPS policy is to sell that people will buy them (some topical interest) and mail use is not one of them. The US Mint has been doing it for years. It is just for the money and little about collecting. In the past we would usuallt see ONE design, now we get many with the goal to get you to buy an entire sheet. It is like the Alex Tribek stamp. He is not even shown on the stamp. Of course, I do not think he deserves a stamp more than many other people either,

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20 Jul 2024
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@ernieinjax I agree with Garbage Pail Kids, those would make a great sheet of 20 stamps. Voltron is technically Japanese, unsure if the USPS is allowed to commemorate. Transformers or He-Man/She-ra maybe. Not Big League Chew - unsure what that has to do with nerd culture, nerds do not play sports. I personally would love stamps featuring 1980s - 1990s cartoons or video games. But video games have the same problem as Voltron, a lot of the good ones were Japanese.

Here's another question - can USPS commemorate someone who is not American is they contributed something of significant international impact? I am thinking like a Shigeru Miyamoto or Linus Torvalds? They did honor Mother Theresa.

Josh

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09:14:12pm

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Josh,
Good question. Are there any non-Americans on US stamps? I feel like I should know the answer right off the top of my head...

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20 Jul 2024
10:07:36pm

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Many people are featured on US stamps that are not US citizens. Churchill, Pulaski, Shakespeare, many explorers, foreigners who assisted with our fight for independence. There is a long list.

Vince

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21 Jul 2024
06:10:36am

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

The USPS's Harry Potter stamps were the ultimate sell out in my opinion?

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21 Jul 2024
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re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

Erniejax said, " I just grew up thinking that the subjects of postage stamps were reserved for the HIGHEST ideals, our best citizens, the most important values that our society had to offer."

In theory, yes. As you said, that's what stamps were supposed to portray. But did they? I hope that we citizens of free, democratic counties have matured enough to realize that our best-known politicians, educators, scientists, musicians, actors, soldiers, sailors, Marines, generals, admirals, artists, presidents, philosophers, explorers, poets, kings, queens, princes, princesses, authors, journalists, mathematicians, etc. are at the end of the day just people, sharing similar intelligence, desires, interests, and problems. Just as "ordinary citizens," like most of us, do not necessarily operate with the "highest ideals," neither do those "best citizens".

Read a bit of history, read some biographies and autobiographies, delve into various archives, and you'll soon learn that the people who are often greatly honoured (and remunerated) by society are not people you would want your daughter or your son to marry. You probably wouldn't want to sit down for a cup of coffee with them, loan them money, or introduce them to friends.

I consider that something like 99.9% of stamps are nothing but little propaganda labels that governmentsand oligarchs learned, long ago, they could use line their pockets. Which is to say that most stamps are political in nature.

Bob

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22 Jul 2024
02:28:59pm

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

@Bob,
Never said or thought they were perfect. But many did contribute to the betterment of society.

Maybe we just scrap the idea of honoring anyone or anything on stamps and just slap a denomination/bar code everything.

JFK? Perfect man? Perfect husband?

I think not. Worthy of a stamp? You betcha.

Ernie

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Al
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23 Jul 2024
06:09:45am

re: New Dungeons and Dragons Stamps

Given we have forever stamps, there is no need for endless annual refreshes except to try to sell something new. Not many have a need for wedding stamps every year (meaning same person getting married). This can apply to holiday stamps (CNY, Christmas, etc). These annual issues crowding the issues program are probably used as an excuse to not release more history relevant stamps.

If you look at the CSAC criteria many of these issues fail to meet every justification except the one general excuse clause.

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