From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>,   
   >jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing   
   >> an opinion.  I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special   
   >> stamps *had* a name.   
   >   
   >Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them.  There are   
   >commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones.  King Charles   
   >started appearing on stamps last year.   
      
   The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war   
   putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion.  Does   
   anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing   
   of Cambodia?   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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