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This subject has fascinated me for years. How do people end up on a stamp? What is the process? Who picks them? Please submit any answers you can find.
1. From the article in the following link, i seems that many countries have a policy of featuring only profiles of notables who have passed on stamps. - New York Times re New Postage Stamps
The United States Postal Service announced this week that it was tossing out its rule that its stamps honor only dead individuals and will be featuring the living as well.
No personalized / custom stamps of yourself, please, in this project.
The Complete Collection of Black American Stamps
See "Francophones sur timbres canadiens" project.
see project Notables on Israeli Stamps, e.g:
See Wikipedia: List of Finns on stamps
This subject has fascinated me for years. How do people end up on a stamp? What is the process? Who picks them? Please submit any answers you can find.
1. From the article in the following link, i seems that many countries have a policy of featuring only profiles of notables who have passed on stamps. - New York Times re New Postage Stamps
The United States Postal Service announced this week that it was tossing out its rule that its stamps honor only dead individuals and will be featuring the living as well.
No personalized / custom stamps of yourself, please, in this project.
The Complete Collection of Black American Stamps
See "Francophones sur timbres canadiens" project.
see project Notables on Israeli Stamps, e.g:
See Wikipedia: List of Finns on stamps