Saturday, April 16, 2011

Epic Fail

Huh??!

This is just pathetically sad.

The US Postal service can't even use a photo of the actual Statute of Liberty to make a stamp?

Sad, just sad.

They could've used this picture, which at least they would've not purported to be the actual Statue.


USPS used Vegas replica for Lady Liberty stamp 
Associated Press -


NEW YORK (AP) -- The US Postal Service's Statue of Liberty forever stamp is a wannabe.

The design is not based on the statue in New York Harbor but on a replica outside the New York-New York casino hotel in Las Vegas.

Postal officials say they weren't aware of that until a stamp expert pointed it out. They say the stamp was designed from a photo provided by an agency that licensed it only as "Statue of Liberty."

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