From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/11/24 9:21 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Actually, they *don't* have a flag on them.  Or rather, they do not have   
   an exact image of a flag; it is also fluttering or folded in some way so   
   that it is not truly a flag.  If it were, as sure as God made little   
   green apples, someone would complain that this allowed people to   
   disrespect the flag by discarding envelopes.   
      
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