“Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp beginning in 2015, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post,” Carl Franzen reports for The Verge.
“Other deceased icons receiving their own stamps that year include Elvis Presley and famed Tonight Show host Johnny Carson,” Franzen reports.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Jobs’ stamp is currently “In Design Development.” Before they get too far along in the process, we hereby nominate the following image:
That is just cool.
I will definitely be getting a set. I’ve been thinking of some sort of wall hanging near my Mac set up. Placed in a nice frame, I think it would make a cool decoration.
Finally! Wonderful news and for me and I am sure for many others this will be priceless.
How much do you want to be that’ll it’ll be priced at 3 times the cost of other stamps and people will buy them up like hotcakes.
Priceless in sentimental terms.
I went to a Waffle House the other day. Not many people were having hot cakes. Not really. Consider changing to selling like hash browns.
People who actually eat at Waffle House have no right to give opinions on food since their taste in cuisine is comparable to hog slop.
And if Jobs were alive to approve the design it’d take 2 years, go through 348 versions, require an all new printing process to produce and cost three times the price of every other stamp. But it’d be perfect.
If he were alive, they wouldn’t be doing it….
Beautiful.
They will be insanely great & lickable like the first iMac.
Will the stamp glue be apple flavored?
Will the stamp be a square with rounded corners?
Most likely square, unless Apple entered into a cross-licensing agreement with the USPS.
Most likely square, unless Apple entered into a cross-licensing agreement with the USPS.
Licking a stamp, like dialing a telephone, is an anachronistic expression from the past century. And stamps can be, and have been, die cut in non-rectangular shapes, but that just wastes paper stock for novelty’s sake. Flavoured stamp gum had been tried but failed the taste test.
The stamp design above is actually a great idea as it embodies all that is Jobs and Apple. Change the middle finger to an index finger and you have it.
It would be the only stamp I would have purchased in the last 15 years.
By the time this stamp is issued, first class postage will be up to $1.75.
neat.
as an aside, great interview with a younger Jobs (circa 1995) currently on Netflix entitled “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview.” Uncanny how he so accurately predicted the future of computing and brutally assesses his own mistakes at . Really interesting.
Would like the US Postal Service to produce an Elvis early years or mature, er, I mean Steve Jobs early years or mature stamp?
if the stamp were designed by Jonny Ive, it’d be ROUND RATHER THAN SQUARE SHAPED> stupid fuckeR.
If only your parents had known in advance the outcome of your conception they probably would have had themselves sterilized.
I hope they use a photo from when he was young and outrageously handsome and not always the photos from the years just before he died, all thin, etc. thats now how I want to remember him..
I wonder if Apple will change their Mail app icon in response.
Few people asked me what does IBM means. I told them that means “I Believe in Mac”.
Lol
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