Harry Potter stamp riles Postal Service panel, traditional stamp collectors - The Washington Post

Harry Potter stamp riles Postal Service panel, traditional stamp collectors - The Washington Post:

 "By Lisa Rein, Published: November 18 E-mail the writer

For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met behind closed doors, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been advisory, they long carried the weight of writ.

Now comes a youngster from across the seas. He isn’t what these leading lights from the fields of arts and letters, athletics, and philately had in mind. For one, he seems kind of crass to some. And worse, he isn’t even American." ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/harry-potter-stamp-riles-postal-service-panel-traditional-stamp-collectors/2013/11/18/95d8ebb2-4d7a-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics

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