{"id":1498,"date":"2006-11-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-07T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:49:36","slug":"photostamps-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/photostamps-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Photostamps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vanity postage. This pretty-easy-to-use website will generate official US postage stamps featuring a photo or illustration of your choosing (works well with iPhoto for instance). When the service was first introduced two years ago it was abused by clever pranksters — my favorite hack was a Unabomber postage stamp. The Post Office shut the program down. The service is available again but I don’t know what the actual image limits are (vs. their stated policy). We made some silly faces and they made stamps from them. I’ve seen them used for wedding\/party invitations. You can also put business logos on them, or other non-political messages. The cost is more than twice that of regular stamps (less if you buy them in bulk). A 20-stamp sheet of these makes a nice personal, utilitarian gift.<\/p>\n

— KK<\/p>\n\"\"<\/form>\n

Photostamps
\n20 stamps, 44 cents
\n$19
\nAvailable from Stamps.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Two other sites offer a similar service for the same price. They offer mild design differences in the bar coded postage area.
\nPictureItPostage<\/a>
\nZazzle<\/a><\/p>\n

For Canadian Postage:
\nCanada Post Picture Postage<\/a><\/p>\n

All three of the following English-speaking countries offer a photo stamp on a sheet next to a postage stamp:
\nFor U.K. Postage:
\nRoyal Mail Smilers<\/a>
\nFor Australian Postage:
\nAustralia Post Personalised Stamps<\/a>
\nFor New Zealand Postage:
\nNew Zealand Personalised Stamps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Custom postage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}