{"id":361,"date":"2005-10-24T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=361"},"modified":"2005-10-26T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T21:30:20","slug":"custom-postage-stamps-for-most-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Custom Postage Stamps For (Most) Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t new. The U.S. Postal Service tried this a while back, discovered that some people wanted to put naughty things on stamps, and promptly shut the service down (I think they called it a &#8220;trial&#8221;; good save guys!). After some subsequent buzz surrounding other postal customization services, they apparently took notice and restarted their own service, and before long vendor <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.stamps.com\/PhotoStamps\/\">Photostamps<\/a> popped up in the news offering custom stamps.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s now month&#8217;s-old ancient history. But surfing over to Yahoo&#8217;s homepage just now I was hit with an ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.yahoo.com\/ph\/page?.file=holiday_stamps.html\"><em>their<\/em> service<\/a> and thought I&#8217;d call attention to it&#8230; as if I need to do that, the ad is pretty in-your-face. I&#8217;m guessing Yahoo is working directly with the USPS, so I feel kinda bad for the Photostamp people. I&#8217;d imagine Yahoo is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pwn\">pwn<\/a> them in short order. And what a clever way to get people using their image hosting services.<\/p>\n<p>None of this of course is to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westampu.com\/\">We Stamp U<\/a> service (a German company that provides custom-stamped postcards and who iirc extended their service to the U.S. prior to the USPS service restart). But I wonder if the We Stamp U folks have figured out that they need to offer something <em>more<\/em> custom. After all, which would you prefer: putting your custom stamp on your <em>own<\/em> mail, or having your custom stamp only on a limited range of post cards? I need to keep an eye on them and see how they adjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t new. The U.S. Postal Service tried this a while back, discovered that some people wanted to put naughty things on stamps, and promptly shut the service down (I think they called it a &#8220;trial&#8221;; good save guys!). After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}