Living People to Appear on Stamps

Who said the United States Postal Service isn’t au courant?

Starting next year, it will start putting the faces of living people on stamps.

The Postal Service announced Monday that it was dropping its age-old rule that required a person depicted on a stamp to have been dead for at least five years. Now, it is willing to use the mug of someone still alive or only recently dead.

Desperate to engage the public as postal revenues decline, the agency is even asking the public to jump on Facebook or Twitter to submit the names of five people whose faces they would like to see stuck on their envelopes. Of course, you can mail your suggestion to the Postal Service, too.

I don’t have either Facebook or Twitter accounts but my picks are:

1. Jessica Alba
2. Katy Perry
3. Stacy Keibler
4. Scarlett Johansson
5. Evan Rachel Wood