The Penn Stater Magazine

Let’s Put Joe on a Postage Stamp…

January 22, 2009 at 8:44 am Tina Hay Leave a comment

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…oh, wait, somebody already has.

My uncle collects canceled stamps for some reason—he gives them to a charity and somehow they turn into money. I’m fuzzy on how that works exactly, but nevertheless I cheerfully save up canceled stamps to send to him. On my desk I have a little dish (a Fiestaware ramekin in evergreen, to be precise), and coworkers tear off the stamps from incoming letters and put the stamps in my dish.

Yesterday I noticed a picture of Joe Paterno in my dish! Upon closer inspection, it looks like the reader who sent this letter to us had gone to www.endicia.com to get some of those custom-made stamps—you know, the sort where you might upload a picture of your 1-year-old daughter or your beloved golden retriever. I don’t think it would have occurred to me to use a picture of Joe. But this reader is clearly a fan.

Tina Hay, editor

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