Doug Kerr
Well-known member
The New York Times reported that on a new "forever" first class mail stamp issued by the United States Postal Service, showing what appears to be the head of the Statue of Liberty, the actual image is of the replica of the statue at the New York-New York casino resort in Las Vegas.
Here is a report of that report:
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/15/statue-of-liberty-stamp-shows-wrong-lady-liberty/
Supposedly, the statue pictured is quite different in several details from the actual Statue of Liberty.
Evidently, the USPS acquired the image from a stock service, without somebody at one end or the other paying a lot of attention.
The real icing on the cake is this quotation, from "USPS spokesman" Roy Betts:
There's no stupidity like a carefully-cultivated stupidity.
Those political activists who scream for government being smaller should be gratified that evidently one portion is already pretty small: the brains.
We get some indication of the wisdom of the USPS when we try and log into their site where one can machine-generate prepaid postage labels (a very nice service, by the way). The field for Username carries the notation, "Minimum 6 characters". The field for Password carries the notation, "Minimum 8 characters".
My Username and Password are however long they are, and presumably would not have been accepted if the wrong length. This is hardly the place to describe the limits on acceptable Usernames and Passwords.
For example, if I erroneously thought that my Username was "Doug", I can hardly fix that here. "Wow, that's not going to work. Maybe I should enter 'Dougie' ".
We can't even think that assume that the form design was just borrowed mindlessly from the one for establishing a Username and Password - it has more elaborate prompts regarding acceptable Username and Password formats. And there, in the spot to "re-enter Password", it gives the same detailed instructions as for "enter Password". Duh!
Best regards,
Dougie
Here is a report of that report:
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/15/statue-of-liberty-stamp-shows-wrong-lady-liberty/
Supposedly, the statue pictured is quite different in several details from the actual Statue of Liberty.
Evidently, the USPS acquired the image from a stock service, without somebody at one end or the other paying a lot of attention.
The real icing on the cake is this quotation, from "USPS spokesman" Roy Betts:
"We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway."
There's no stupidity like a carefully-cultivated stupidity.
Those political activists who scream for government being smaller should be gratified that evidently one portion is already pretty small: the brains.
We get some indication of the wisdom of the USPS when we try and log into their site where one can machine-generate prepaid postage labels (a very nice service, by the way). The field for Username carries the notation, "Minimum 6 characters". The field for Password carries the notation, "Minimum 8 characters".
My Username and Password are however long they are, and presumably would not have been accepted if the wrong length. This is hardly the place to describe the limits on acceptable Usernames and Passwords.
For example, if I erroneously thought that my Username was "Doug", I can hardly fix that here. "Wow, that's not going to work. Maybe I should enter 'Dougie' ".
We can't even think that assume that the form design was just borrowed mindlessly from the one for establishing a Username and Password - it has more elaborate prompts regarding acceptable Username and Password formats. And there, in the spot to "re-enter Password", it gives the same detailed instructions as for "enter Password". Duh!
Best regards,
Dougie
