USPS Issues Statue of Liberty Stamp…But Uses Wrong Statue
- Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:06am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Las Vegas is full of secrets. And what happens there is supposed to stay there. Unless you’re the United States Postal Services. See, the USPS recently issued a Statue of Liberty stamp. But instead of using the real Lady Liberty in New York, the stamp features the replica located outside Vegas’s New York-New York Casino. Oops.
The New York Times explains the mix-up:
The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists.
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The service selected the image from a photography service, and issued rolls of the stamp bearing the image in December. This month, it issued a sheet of 18 Lady Liberty and flag stamps. Information accompanying the original release of the stamp included a bit of history on the real Statue of Liberty. Las Vegas was never mentioned. The whole mess was exposed by the stamp magazine, which this week ran photographs of both statues.
The postal service is using the old “we would have done this all along” line. Spokesman Roy Betts told the Times: “We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway.” Right.
So what exactly is the difference between the the two statues? At first, they seem trivial. But, as the Times points out, they’re there:
To the average tourist, there are obvious differences. The Las Vegas statue is half the size of the real Statue of Liberty. And of course, they are in different cities. But it takes a real student of Lady Liberty to notice the contrasts in a stamp-size photo of her head. The hair is different. The replica’s eyes are much more sharply defined. A rectangular patch — a plaque, maybe? — is on the replica’s center spike.
Gawker has pictures of the Vegas one:
And here’s the true Lady Liberty in New York:
Still, the post office is sticking by its decision. Rather than change the picture, it’s simply changing the description that accompanies the stamp. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch told the Times just what he thinks about that.
“It simply means the post office is doing a stupid thing,” he said.
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Comments (89)
mrsmileyface
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:01amJust another example of a well oiled government operation.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:14amYah, let’s hand over our health care system to them, why don’t we? hahaha
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:52amSleepy, unionized federal workers strike again!
Report Post »patriotteapress
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:35amIn Obummer’s world nothing is as it seems. Everything and everybody got fake paper work and picture ID’s!
Has the “Obama, Dreams of a President,” postage stamp come out yet?
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:21amWe have all come to expect this stupidity from our government employees….no one will even take note.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:20amIt kinda like lifting the veil of a beautiful woman and finding Moochell underneath.
Report Post »rosegrower
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:11pmEeeeew – not an image I want to take with me today.
Report Post »Well-Armed-Lamb
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:20amYes, but the real Statue is actually in New Jersey.
Report Post »BidBerthaDotCom
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 12:14pmNew Jersey?
Report Post »Patti-Momma-Ewok
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:06pmYes, the Staue of Liberty is in New York Harbor on the New Jersey side of the border.
Report Post »BidBerthaDotCom
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:11pmI guess it’s true, you do learn something every day…
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:15amI think the stamp is beautiful, so what?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:11am@LOADINGMYCLIPS ~~~~ It’s false.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:13am“forever” on all issued stamps. The postal commission rejected the increase passed by congress last year. I believe we are going to see either a large increase or a series of increases in mailing a letter. The use of “forever” shows that you won’t SEE it. Image is everything!
Report Post »joey g
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:12amany time the goverment is involved things get f–ked up
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:11amNot surprising the Post office is a government agency after all.
Report Post »Cap8tain
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:08amUmm, The USPS is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1971 as an “independent establishment of the executive branch”. Since Mr. Obammer, is the “executive branch”, do you think there was any involvement on his part? Haha.
Report Post »Inlandmar2
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:07amUSPS…What a bunch of morons!
Report Post »hightide
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:05amHeey, I still have a half a roll of those. Since they are a mistake are they worth a lot of money now?
Report Post »USAFRetired
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:59amDad told me “don’t believe 75% of what you hear, 50% of what you read, and 25% of what you see. and you will survive the news of the day.
Report Post »Amazingoly
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:43amJust more evidence of their incompetence and cost overruns.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:39amWe‘re from the government we’re here to help.
Report Post »Another example of your tax dollars at work for you. Now the government wants to run everything, including our health care. That should work out just fine. They say the health care is going to save the taxpayer a trillion dollars. Come on they can’t even get a stamp right.
ComeAndTakeThis
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:36amAnd a large portion of American citizins want the government to run their health care. Idiots.,,
Report Post »crypticmitch86
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:31amNo. 36,009,761,902,111,708,385,004 on the list of news that doesn’t surprise me.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:56amwell no one forced you to click
Report Post »WeTheHomers
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 1:50pmWait…isn’t that number the current national debt?
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:30amGood Lord! Does no one have any brains anymore???
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:29amThe USPS can‘t identify with anything that doesn’t commemorate organized labor, so they had to use the statue of liberty replica that was erected by union thugs in Vegas.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:24amWE ARE FROM THE GOVERNMENT……………..WE ARE HEAR TO HELP
( to the sound of your favorite horror movie)
Report Post »In-God-I-trust
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:19amOh, so this is what Vegas got for voting Reid back in.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:18amFormer New York City Mayor Ed Koch told the Times just what he thinks about that.
“It simply means the post office is doing a stupid thing,” he said.
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Have you ever known the USPS to do something smart?? Not lately anyway.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:14amI don`t think it was a mistake. The “powers that be” run Vegas……………… including Trump.
It is another “we are in control and there is NOTHING you can do about it” message for the infidels. (us)
Wake up and smell da coffee.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:13amOh, yet another “I mispoke” moment for a governmental agency.
NOPE! They need to take these out and print the real one.
DON’T BUY the FAKE stamps. Do not support the imbeciles controlling our government.
Period.
Dear GOD, now we have to add the USPS to our prayer list. *sigh*
Report Post »MaggieRose
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:22amAGREED!! This is OUTRAGEOUS!! I will NOT be nudged!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:10amAPRIL 15 2011
Report Post »IT BEGINS NOW
Attend a Tax Day Rally
http://connect.freedomworks.org/portals/tax-day?source=AWtax&_kk=tax%20day%20tea%20party&_kt=dccbef2e-f220-4f98-8b80-2e120f8b7857&gclid=CJeO692wnqgCFQ075QodkwXyHA
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:18amPrinted in China? Probably.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:55amYeah well thats government for you.. and they want to run the healthcare system sheesh !!!
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:59amI’ll be there PA Patriot. We need to let the libs know that we’re not going away as they hope. Atlas Shrugged also opens today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68uzsXdMLS4
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:59amI do a lot of business with the PO. you could say it is a stupid decision, which it is, but their layers of bureaucracy are so intrenched it is probably next to impossible to change this. they are still a govt agency. who knew! When the PO made a profit they were not allowed to set it aside as a normal business would but are reqired by law to put that excess into their pension plan. and its collossal. When they lose money they cannot touch it because it is now dedicated to their pension fund. Did I say collossal? So who bails them out when they cannot operate and meet their expenses. YOU DO! Look, its just going to cost you more to fix it. just like it cost you to pay for this screw up in the first place. FIRST CLASS , PRIORITY, and EXPRESS, SCREWUP without a tracking number.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:11amTAX DAY TEA PARTY in CONCORD NH noon .. I’ll be there, where will you be? :)
Report Post »jeffcarter629
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:45amFitting metaphor. This administration projects an illusion of liberty, not the real thing.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:00amEver buy gold Eagles?? 1/10oz=$5.00, 1/oz=$10.00, 1/2oz=$25.00, 1oz=$50.00, notice the 1/4oz??. Only Government adds like this.
Report Post »BidBerthaDotCom
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 11:55amNow you can buy a stamp depicting a fake Statue of Liberty with fake money in a country that gives you the illusion of freedom.
Report Post »heyjms
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 12:18pmThis must be what Democracy looks like……
Report Post »Morguerat
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:53pmYou know Tax Day is the 18th, right?
Report Post »Infidel and Proud
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:16pmThe heck with these Tax Day rallies, when I see a wide spread “We’re NOT paying ANY TAXES” movements then I will know that people are SERIOUS !
Report Post »Infidel and Proud
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:17pmDefund the feds !!!!!!
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 11:11pmThe Post office doing a stupid thing? Say it isn’t true Eddy boy!
Report Post »I think using the Vegas statue is VERY appropos, considering this administration is a “CRAP SHOOT”
HEARDENOUGHCRAP
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 2:53amDoes this mean that, like the Obamanation, USPS is acting STUPIDLY?!!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 7:24ambureaucracy at it’s best.
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