{"id":1007,"date":"2015-07-04T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2015-07-04T22:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:06:27","slug":"ds106-what-have-you-done-for-me-philately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/ds106-what-have-you-done-for-me-philately\/","title":{"rendered":"ds106: What have you done for me philately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I am in The Village in the post office as the philatelist and I decided to take a closer look at how stamps are created. I was blown away by Zazzle and other programs where you can upload images and actually create stamps! These are accepted by the US Post Office! I have many questions: can I make a porno stamp? a Hitler stamp? an ISUL stamp? Who screens these things? How did that person get stuck doing that job? Can I violate my own HIPAA rights and make stamps of my teeth x-rays? But enough of that: Questions are a burden to others. Now, I still need to make stamps for local delivery here in The Village because we do not accept in-coming or out going foreign mail. But in the mean time, I created this actual, useable stamp at Zazzle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/postageStampZazzle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1008\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/postageStampZazzle.png\" alt=\"postageStampZazzle\" width=\"528\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/postageStampZazzle.png 528w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/postageStampZazzle-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/life\/arts-entertainment\/2015-06-18\/philatelists-behave-badly-play-about-stamp-collection\" target=\"_blank\">Philatelists behave badly in play about stamp collection<\/a> (cjonline.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conchapman.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/17\/residents-on-guard-as-philatelists-descend-on-small-town-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Residents on Guard as Philatelists Descend on Small Town<\/a> (conchapman.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diy-home-tips.com\/do-it-yourself-quinceanera-invitations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Do It Yourself Quinceanera Invitations<\/a> (diy-home-tips.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I am in The Village in the post office as the philatelist and I decided to take a closer look at how stamps are created. I was blown away by Zazzle and other programs where you can upload images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/ds106-what-have-you-done-for-me-philately\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[1056,1057,1082,1085,1083,1080,1081,1084],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds106","tag-prisoner106","tag-ds106","tag-philately","tag-post-office","tag-postage","tag-postage-stamp","tag-stamps","tag-united-states-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}