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HOT! Get your face on a stamp!

They plugged this on TSS a few days ago. Looks pretty cool but the price seems a little steep ($19.98 for 20 $.37 stamps).

I only see this as being useful when sending out Christmas cards or the like.
 
Originally posted by: crumpet19
So.... I think the question everyone is really wanting answered is: Can I use a picture of bewbies?
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oh please... i doubt anyone would wanna see your manboobs 😛
 
Originally posted by: weepul
i wonder how this will affect stamp collectors.

//krunk (^_^x)
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They interviewed some president of some stamp collectors association or soemthing on CNN's weekly tech show (what's it called, NEXT?). It seems the stamps buffs like it. Something about it getting people interested in stamps.

The same show interviewed the guys from the Smoking Gun Web site in conjunction with the Photo Stamp guys. The Smoking Gun guys were able to slip quite a few images through the screening process. It seems that you can't put just anything on the stamp (including "bewbies").

I bought a few sheets. I mail a lot of letters (especially overseas), and it'll mess with my cousins and girlfriend (and maybe the Taiwanese post office) when they see their own pictures and pictures of their kids on a stamp.

You can buy stamps in many denominations ($0.23 $0.37 $0.49 $0.60 $0.83 $1.06 $3.85). Direct link to price list. It's more than twice the price of regualr stamps plus $3 flat rate shipping.

They show you a preview of your stamp, you can change the border color, zoom the image, recenter, etc. You can play with it without buying or registering.
 
I was just thinking of the possibilities.. of slipping some famous persons picture in as a stamp.. leaving your stamps untouched for a few years.. until after they discontinue this program due to (I'm sure) eventual abuse.. step 4? Profit!!!
 
Ordered my stamps on 9/12.

I've been wondering where they are.

Email received on 9/22 to let me know they're on their way.

Ten days to make and ship my stamps (3 sheets)... it's longer than I expected... but not horrible, I guess.
 
My wife was thrilled to get a card from me with a stamp with a wedding pic on it.

Way too expensive to use for everyday mail, but quite fun for novelties.
 
Heard on a radio talk show this morning that they will no longer do adult photos (head shots). Seems that someone has done the unibomber and others that seemed to embarrass the site. So they announced something to the effect they would only do kids, scenery, pets etc.... FWIW

We were going to do a XMAS family pix and I now wonder if they still will do it.
 
Originally posted by: Melectricus
Heard on a radio talk show this morning that they will no longer do adult photos (head shots). Seems that someone has done the unibomber and others that seemed to embarrass the site. So they announced something to the effect they would only do kids, scenery, pets etc.... FWIW

We were going to do a XMAS family pix and I now wonder if they still will do it.
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trial period ends soon and they put those new restrictions causing their stock to plummet 13% earlier this week
 
Originally posted by: Melectricus
Heard on a radio talk show this morning that they will no longer do adult photos (head shots). Seems that someone has done the unibomber and others that seemed to embarrass the site. So they announced something to the effect they would only do kids, scenery, pets etc.... FWIW

We were going to do a XMAS family pix and I now wonder if they still will do it.
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Holy crap! You're right. According to the Web site, they'll only print images of: Babies or Children that appear to be pre-teenagers; Pets and Animals; Business and Charity logos or graphics; Landscape and Wildlife; and Vehicles.

I don't know if the restrictions were there when I ordered last month, but I got my stamps. All of them had (fully clothed) young adults in the photos.

I'm thinking that these new restrictions (if enforced) will ensure that the business will fail.



BTW, the stamps are pretty huge, and the quality is not as great as I had hoped. By that I mean that the photos appear to be ink-jet quality printings.

I'm not disappointed. I understand that these things are novelties, but it would have been much cooler if the images were similar to regular postage stamps.


 
I wonder if the ones that were actually printed of Monica Lewinsky's dress and the Unabomber will be worth anything in the future. If they weren't immediately destroyed, that is.
 
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