Stupid Government News: Cliff Claven Would Be Proud

Apaprently, the U.S. Postal Service must have promoted Cliff Claven of Cheers to the head stamp making.

From the New York Times: The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas. You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original, the one off the tip of Lower Manhattan that for 125 years has welcomed millions of New York’s huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Instead, they accidentally used the 14-year-old statue that presides over thousands of weary gamblers a week. The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/us/15stamp.html?_r=1

Of course the postal service is making excuses and is saying they would have used the same picture anyways and is not going to recall the stamp or redo the stamp.

Sounds like the Department of Education is now running the postal service.