The US postal service is going to offer personalized postage stamps.
Instead of the traditional flags or flowers, you can put anything from your children, your portrait or a corporate logo on the stamp using your home computer.
While cute, they are a little costly.
A sheet of 20 first class stamps costs more than twice as much as traditional 37-cent stamps.A package of twenty stamps for use on a standard 1-ounce envelope runs $16.99. The price includes $7.40 for the twenty 37-cent stamps, $2.99 for shipping, and the costs of photographic-quality printing.
This is the first time the postal service has parted from tradition and allowed living people on stamps. Because the stamps fall under USPS regulations for metered mail, they are exempt from regular stamp rules, which prohibits living people on stamps and only allows those who have been dead at least 10 years.
Stamps carry a bar code and serial number to prevent counterfeiting.
Each submitted design will be reviewed for controversial or copy written material.
More information on custom stamps is available at US Photo Stamps
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