U.S. Postal Service has approved a pilot program for personalized postage. For about twice the regular cost, consumers can now slap any old picture of Fluffy or Aunt Gladys on a stamp and surprise the recipient of their postcard or envelope. Somewhere in the rules and regulations it says the image must not be deemed objectionable by the folks at Stamps.com who run the program for the USPS. It seems there's wide latitude in interpretation of the word "objectionable." So far, unobjectionable images include, among others, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Monica Lewinsky's infamous semen-stained blue dress, and the Unabomber, Ted Kazinsky. The whole story

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