Ponder this:

[MichaelHarris]

I submitted 3 of my pictures to Stamps.com to make postage stamps. It's pretty cool, you send them your photo and they make postage stamps for you. Out of the 3 I sent one got rejected. I'll post the picture and the terms of service to see what rule I broke.

Here's the picture, now remember these people don't know me or my ethnicity. This woman could very well be my Grandmother and the boy my son or something like that.



Now the terms of service:

A. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material for any unlawful purpose or that is obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, sexually suggestive, deceptive, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, an invasion of privacy, supportive of unlawful action, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, violent, or otherwise objectionable;

B. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that depicts celebrities or celebrity likenesses, regional, national or international leaders or politicians, current or former world leaders, convicted criminals, newsworthy, notorious or infamous images and individuals, or any material that is vintage in appearance or depicts images from an older era;

C. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that you do not have a right to transmit or communicate under any contractual or fiduciary relationship or which infringes any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right or any moral right of any party;

D. To upload or otherwise transmit any material which is likely to cause harm to any Stamps.com service or anyone else's computer systems, including but not limited to that which contains any virus, code, worm, data or other files or programs designed to damage or allow unauthorized access to any Stamps.com service or which may cause any defect, error, malfunction or corruption to the service; and

E. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that emulates any form of valid indicia or payment for postage.

I bolded what I thought may be the reason. I had already told them I own the images so it shouldn't be that.

I'm not suggesting anything here it's just a little weird. I hope the reason it was rejected is for well, you know.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Shhhh...

there's a war going on. Let's not bring it to anyone's attention if we can't control the message.:puke: More manipulation from our Gov't.

[MichaelHarris]

9. LOL

I'm thinking about photo-shopping the sign out and see if they accept it then. All that's left is a woman comforting a crying child.

[JNelson6563]

2. Why Michael? Why??

Just tell us why you hate America!

:sarcasm:

[MichaelHarris]

4. hahahahahaha

LOL I took the picture because I thought it was cool, the lady comforting the little boy. Here is the picture I took right before that:



I saw comfort, Stamps.com must have seen something I didn't.

[bahrbearian]

3. Looks like the USPS has opened a Pandora Box, Thanks.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Why not try with another photo,

say, of yourself wearing a peace tee shirt or a VVAW tee shirt, just to see what happens?

[MichaelHarris]

7. DU

have T-shirts? LOL that would be a good one.

[AlienGirl]

6. "Vintage in appearance"?! WTF?

[MichaelHarris]

8. Crazy huh

I asked for an explanation but haven't gotten it yet. It does say if you piss them off enough they'll not make any stamps for you and ban you and send you to Gitmo. I'm just glad they accepted my other two, pretty sure they didn't piss anyone off:





Well unless there are some anti-balletites or vio-nazis.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Now that was funny. Off to Gitmo youu patriotic stamp ... errrm... uhh...befuddler!