From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 10/11/2024 6:21 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   
      
   I sometimes put stamps on upside down by mistake.  And I doubt anyone is   
   still protesting the bombing of Cambodia, which was half a century ago.   
      
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