From USA Today: The U.S. Postal Service wasted $1.2 million in printing costs by selling less than a one-third of the 1 billion commemorative stamps of The Simpsons, Bloomberg news reports.
Bloomberg's
Angela Greiling Keane writes that the inspector general of the
money-losing USPS singled out overproduction of commemorative stamps as
one example of not properly gauging the needs of customers.
The
44-cent "Simpsons" stamps, which sold in 2009 and 2010, came in five
designs, featuring Homer, wife Marge, and children Bart, Lisa and baby
Maggie.
One problem, the IG notes, is that the stamps are tied to
their 44-cent price, and became unwieldy for customers when the price of
mailing a first-class letter went up by a penny.
The IG also
criticizes the process for deciding how many stamps to print, saying it
is too unscientific and dependent upon the experience of one individual,
which can lead to "costly miscalculations."
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/postal-service-stuck-with-682m-unsold-simpsons-stamps-/1?csp=34news&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.UDVtq6A8VXt
And Homer had this to say about the idiocy of the USPS:
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