Tuesday, Sept 27

I started reading an article called "Can I Get One Sheet of the Lady Gagas ..." because even though I am not a huge Lady Gaga fan, I was interested in what the article was about since I had no clue. It turned out that the article was about the United States Postal Service getting rid of its rule that its stamps can only honor dead people. What this means is that living people, such as Lady Gaga, Bill Gates, and Bob Dylan can be nominated to be put on the stamps in the near future (the people I just mentioned have been nominated for already by readers). My initial reaction to this what that is would be silly to spend time on picking someone to be put onto stamps because it seems like we hardly ever send mail anymore. Ironically, I had two letters waiting in my mailbox today and so I came back to this article and read it a little more closely, finding that the goal the people at the USPS have is to get more people to send mail. The USPS is a business and the following quote really explains this well: '“Having really nice, relevant, interesting, fun stamps might make a difference in people’s decisions to mail a letter,” said Stephen Kearney, the Postal Service’s manager of stamp services.' Even though this article wasn't breaking news or anything of that sort, I really did find it interesting as a writer because even the art of writing on paper (so many of us use our laptops instead whether to send email, or use phones to send text messages and emails), it might be nice to sit down and write a letter or two and stick a nice, relevant stamp on it. I don't know if I'd like a Lady Gaga one but I'm sure there will be a fun one besides her.