I love Ben Franklin! :) Interestingly, an American artist from last century got a few threatening letters from the treasury department. Cease and desist painting American currency so realistically! Having seen one of his painted bills, you have to look at it from the side to tell if it's real and glued on or painted! :)
Everybody wonders why the Post Office is having so much financial trouble... but they decided to let people create and print there own stamps! Yee haw!
Then half the time they won't post mark what you drop in the mailbox. Even when you ASK for a Post Mark at the post office sometimes they give you that "You're so old-fashioned stupid look!" Start putting a postmark on EVERY first class item of mail, advertise THIS and people will start using the Post Office again. The Post Mark is a LEGAL proof of something having been sent that business folks have used for years. Once a letter enters the Postal mail system it is a FEDERAL CRIME to tamper with it. People stealing mail out of your mailbox is a Federal Crime. The entire postal system is set up to protect your mail from theft and stage coach robbers! AND the Post Office has it's own police force to stop those robbers in there tracks! Postal Inspectors ARE the Men in Black! And YET I just saw an AD on TV saying they were talking about ending door to door delivery because the Government keeps diverting the Postal service's profit to other SUPPOSEDLY NECESSARY programs. If the Post Office has been around since Stage coach days...if it goes down...We should ALL go buy the biggest guns we can 'cause we are going to be OWNED by a collaboration of Corporate bosses and computer hackers.
LOL I used to see those all the time when I worked for the Loomis Fargo armored car company as a teller. Those stamps were on all kinds of denominations, though I don't think I ever saw it on a $100-bill, but I did see it on anything between $1-bills, $5-bills, $10's and $20's quite frequently. Mostly on the $1-bills though
I thought about signing up and helping track the bills, but never did get around to it. In my job as a driver, I've handled thousands of Where's George'd bills in my time.
You might be amused to find that ' www. wherestom.com ' (For Thomas Jefferson, on the two) will also take you to wheresgeorge.com .
And in reply to some of the folks above, I do stamp all sorts of denominations as well. I enjoy the 50s and 100s. They don't hit a lot, but when they do, they could be anywhere on the globe.
Now the big question is, did you update the two so that the originator could see where it is now? :)
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Date: 2013-03-13 06:50 pm (UTC)Everybody wonders why the Post Office is having so much financial trouble... but they decided to let people create and print there own stamps! Yee haw!
Then half the time they won't post mark what you drop in the mailbox. Even when you ASK for a Post Mark at the post office sometimes they give you that "You're so old-fashioned stupid look!" Start putting a postmark on EVERY first class item of mail, advertise THIS and people will start using the Post Office again. The Post Mark is a LEGAL proof of something having been sent that business folks have used for years. Once a letter enters the Postal mail system it is a FEDERAL CRIME to tamper with it. People stealing mail out of your mailbox is a Federal Crime. The entire postal system is set up to protect your mail from theft and stage coach robbers! AND the Post Office has it's own police force to stop those robbers in there tracks! Postal Inspectors ARE the Men in Black! And YET I just saw an AD on TV saying they were talking about ending door to door delivery because the Government keeps diverting the Postal service's profit to other SUPPOSEDLY NECESSARY programs. If the Post Office has been around since Stage coach days...if it goes down...We should ALL go buy the biggest guns we can 'cause we are going to be OWNED by a collaboration of Corporate bosses and computer hackers.
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Date: 2013-03-14 11:38 am (UTC)about 25002900 twos ;-)You might be amused to find that ' www. wherestom.com ' (For Thomas Jefferson, on the two) will also take you to wheresgeorge.com .
And in reply to some of the folks above, I do stamp all sorts of denominations as well. I enjoy the 50s and 100s. They don't hit a lot, but when they do, they could be anywhere on the globe.
Now the big question is, did you update the two so that the originator could see where it is now? :)