New Stamp Honors the Statue of Liberty – No, Not the One in New York Harbor …
The post office decided to buy a stock photo of a close up of the State of Liberty … turns out it’s much easier to photograph the 150-foot replica in front of the New York, New York Casino in LAS VEGAS than the real one in New York Harbor …
Post office says, O RLY and WHATEV …
VIA NY TIMES.
Of course, the real reason the post office is casual about this and isn’t changing the stamp is to avoid making these stamps valuable if they initiate a recall. Let liberty ring forever Las Vegas style.
BTW, if you did not know, Ellis Island belongs to New Jersey while the State of Liberty & its base portion was granted to New York State. You can read about the dispute at Wikipedia.
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17 April 2011
12 Comments
Sounds like the Post Office needs to hire a second guy to make sure the first guy doesn’t fall asleep on the job, then have to hurry to find a photo of the Statue of Liberty from Google Images!
Wow is all I can say, that is pretty awful. I don’t collect stamps, but I might have to get some of these
The real Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island, not Ellis Island.
(MET: Wisenheimer).
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Heard about this on the radio Friday, what a dunce picked this photo
Whatever,
the real Statue of Liberty is still in Paris… and it’s amall scale designer plan as well 😉
As a native New Yorker the stamps will be “FOREVER” wrong!
On another note…. What is going on with Mattel’s distribution?? A friend of mine was able to pick up two sets of 10 (Yes…all different!) of the new Cars 2 for me and himself!? Of all places………………Family Dollar!?
Where at? The ones I went to carried Case B which only had 9 different ones.
Phoenix, AZ…… no sign of Jeff Gorvette – my buddy also got Luigi and Guido – only found one of those…… Got LMcQ, Finn, Mater, Holly, Z, Grem, Acer, Fillmore, Sarge, and francesco….
Going to check another Family Dollar in MD but no luck on anything other than case B in WV. No Holley, Grem, or Rod Torqueline or whetever his name is. I still have an extra Gorvette if you want to trade for Grem!
They are also not going to recall the stamps because they are broke and already printed 3 billion of them.