Is Canada Post guilty of censorship? And... would you lick this stamp? - GoFuckYourself.com

CDSmith · 04-18-2006, 07:18 AM

CALGARY -- Sultry personal postage stamp images have been returned-to-sender by Canada Post, leaving a Calgary photographer claiming his work is being censored.

Photographer Frederick Potter said he was excited to learn Canada Post offers a service that allows people to customize and order stamps by using their own photographs.

But when some artistic shots of his Ukrainian-born wife Oleanna Potter -- topless and in one with Maple Leaf flags covering her breasts -- were rejected as inappropriate, Frederick said he was baffled.

"It's arbitrary censorship," he said. "Would a picture of a baby on a bearskin rug be considered child pornography? ... Where does it end?

"Having Oleanna on a postage stamp is kind of a celebration of her becoming a Canadian."

In an e-mail to the Potters, an employee with the Canadian Bank Note Company, which partners with Canada Post to offer the customized service, said they couldn't approve of the image due to Canadian flag etiquette.

"We'd want to see a ruling by the Department of Heritage that, in this case, the flag is deemed to be displayed in a manner befitting this important national symbol," the e-mail said.

Frederick said a number of different images submitted, including a nude shot, were all rejected.

Oleanna, who moved to Canada over three years ago, said she is surprised by the response and is taking it personally.

"I feel like I'm in a very conservative country," she said.

'THAT'S NORMAL'

"We were just going to send it on letters to my family and friends in Ukraine. My family has a nude picture of me on their wall -- in Ukraine that's normal."

Frederick said he's giving up the battle and won't be submitting anymore images to the Canada Post website at www.picturepostage.ca.

"Anything that's not distinctive to her is not worth owning," he said.

Here's the stamp:

StuartD · 04-18-2006, 07:21 AM

Her family has a nude picture of her on their wall? That's... uhm... icky.

G-Rotica · 04-18-2006, 07:22 AM

Oh hell yea, i'd lick that stamp.

cool1 · 04-18-2006, 07:40 AM

yes and yes

CDSmith · 04-18-2006, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StuartD

Her family has a nude picture of her on their wall? That's... uhm... icky.

I would have to see the picture. It might be one of them "tasteful" artistic nudes, in which case it goes from "icky" to just a little creepy. :D

BlackCrayon · 04-18-2006, 08:14 AM

lol, its not even the flag. just a couple of red maple leaves.

Michael O · 04-18-2006, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StuartD

Her family has a nude picture of her on their wall? That's... uhm... icky.

When I was 14-15 I went to a friends girlfriends house and over the dining table there were a topless picture that looked like my friends girlfriend.
I looked at the picture then at her, then at the picture, she then told me it were her older sister that were a nude model.

gooddomains · 04-18-2006, 08:36 AM

funny stuff

Vitasoy · 04-18-2006, 09:05 AM

That stamp is damn hot

CDSmith · 04-18-2006, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

When I was 14-15 I went to a friends girlfriends house and over the dining table there were a topless picture that looked like my friends girlfriend.
I looked at the picture then at her, then at the picture, she then told me it were her older sister that were a nude model.

Did you find that at all odd?

SmokeyTheBear · 04-18-2006, 12:03 PM

CDSmith · 04-18-2006, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

Red-X city.

Is it funny? :D

gecko · 04-18-2006, 03:14 PM

I'd lick it all up ;)

majorbitch · 04-18-2006, 03:27 PM

The stamp doesn't look TOO bad. But the family having nude pics of her is.. um.... yeah, gross.

madawgz · 04-18-2006, 03:39 PM

id forshure lick that stamp

Michael O · 04-18-2006, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDSmith

Did you find that at all odd?

A little but nothing that freaked me out I enjoyed it :D

CDSmith · 04-18-2006, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

A little but nothing that freaked me out I enjoyed it :D

I had a hot sister-in-law (before my brother divorced her).... but I can tell you this much.... my mother would no more have had a nude picture of her up on the wall than fly to the moon.

Nice to look at or not, I can't see that being thought of as "normal" in any home I've been in.

Choppa · 04-18-2006, 06:26 PM

If they had stamps like that and even a series of nude ones you watch stamp sales go up

reynold · 04-18-2006, 07:03 PM

well at least from now on everyone will take some time to look at the stamp everytime a letter would arrive in the mailbox

04-18-2006, 07:18 AM	#1
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