Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/24/usps-issues-circular-textured.html
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the football one overcomes the limits of its media
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“Okay folks, we have seven great suggestions for sports, but we need eight to make the sheets work out nicely. Anybody have a good suggestion for another sport with a unique ball having some kind of recognizable texture?”
…And that’s how kickball made the cut.
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Does everyone at BoingBoing dislike sports? Sports seems to get a backhand slap every time the topic is mentioned.
I mean, I strongly dislike the opera, but I don’t say so every time someone brings up the chrome or the firefox.
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I thought at first these were 3d, which would truly be a feat of techno-philatelic engineering.
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Can you please show me where this slap exists in this thread or the original post? I didn’t detect it.
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I’m sorta bummed I can’t get a sheet of only baseball ones.
We don’t use too many stamps - haven’t since online bill pay forever ago - but these are pretty cool.
In for a sheet. 
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TIL kickball is considered a sport.
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really - and a puck would have fit perfectly.
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If they had called it Dodgeball I would give them a pass.
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I was bad enough at sportsball as a kid, just about any game I would be involved in would often turn into dodge ball (with me as the target).
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For the record, my favorite sport is golfball.
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Their marketing department is taking things up a notch, the latest slogan released with these stamps makes mail sexy again…
USPS: “Check out our package. Feel our balls.”
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Anyone know why these read: USA FOREVER
that seems rather passive aggressive…
They tried ; and that’s why there is no marble stamp.
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Fail. No cricket ball.
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I am totally going to the post office today, buy some of these and yell out “Yeah! These stamps are the balls!”
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Though the part with texture is the edges… It wouldn’t be a circle, and well it isn’t a ball. But I agree it could have had a puck…
and Go Ottawa!
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I suppose it’s possible that @pesco really, really loves these stamps but only really loves the sports themselves. But it sounds like a slap to me.
They could’ve shown a football pointed right at you!
