Flags on Stamps [was Re: Things I never thought would disappear]

On 10/11/24 9:21 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:

In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>,
jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:
>

Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion.  I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.

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Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them.  There are
commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones.  King Charles
started appearing on stamps last year.

 The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war
putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion.  Does
anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing
of Cambodia?
--scott

Actually, they *don't* have a flag on them.  Or rather, they do not have an exact image of a flag; it is also fluttering or folded in some way so that it is not truly a flag.  If it were, as sure as God made little green apples, someone would complain that this allowed people to disrespect the flag by discarding envelopes.
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