Personal Postage Stamps
Posted on:: July 17th, 2002
So, we’re going to be allowed to print our own US postage stamps on our own printers. Why not let us create our own designs as well? After all, the paper is watermarked. Here are the first ones I’d do:
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This is an absolutely fantastic idea. It is the one thing that could possibly reinvigorate paper mail relative to e-mail. The printing industry is developing variable data, personalized, printing systems to keep printing a viable and desired means of communication. The postal service could do the same for paper mail through “personalized postage.” It is a revolutionary idea.
We teach and do research on technology such a this at Cal Poly.
Harvey Levenson
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Harvey Robert Levenson, Ph. D.
Department Head
Graphic Communication Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Phone: 805/756-6151 or 1109
Fax: 805/756-7118
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.grc.calpoly.edu
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This is an absolutely fantastic idea. It is the one thing that could possibly reinvigorate paper mail relative to e-mail. The printing industry is developing variable data, personalized, printing systems to keep printing a viable and desired means of communication. The postal service could do the same for paper mail through “personalized postage.” It is a revolutionary idea.
We teach and do research on technology such as this at Cal Poly.
Harvey Levenson
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Harvey Robert Levenson, Ph. D.
Department Head
Graphic Communication Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Phone: 805/756-6151 or 1109
Fax: 805/756-7118
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.grc.calpoly.edu
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I thought I caught a radio commercial that gave a website to do just this.
Do you know that site address?
I have heard an ad on one of the local Chicago radio stations that is advertising this very idea. I do not remember the web site but I am trying to find it. I think it is a great idea.
It is has been possible to order your own design stamps for over a year or so, here in Finland. You can even order one set directly from the school yearbook photographer. Here is the link – in Finnish… http://www.posti.fi/omakuvapostimerkki/
The Post Office does make personalized photo stamps available through vendors that they approve. You can find them on line and email them your photo. They will print your personal stamps for you and mail them to you. The Post Office has chosen this route to control the kind of photos or art work people incorporate into their official US Postage Stamps. You can just imagine what kind of photos some people would use for their stamps if they could print their own at home. You of course can do any kind of art on your envelope but stamps are official Post Office products and they will not give up control of the art on them.