The United States Postal Service announced plans today to end Saturday mail delivery later this year, as part of its spirit quest to become something other than a $16 billion sinkhole. Good! But it’s not enough. In an age where we’ve already started to leave email behind, five days of bulk catalog and sweepstakes deliveries is pure, unmitigated excess. More »
Many of us wish that we had some Doctor Who postage stamps to send our Christmas cards out this year. Sadly, there was nothing official available in time for the holidays. That’s about to change in the UK, while we Americans are left out in the cold.
The stamps commemorate the 50th anniversary of the British sci-fi show, and feature each of the Eleven Doctors. There will also be a five stamp miniature sheet, which has the TARDIS in the center surrounded by bad guys like a Dalek, a Cyberman, an Ood and a Weeping Angel.
The stamps will be available on March 26, 2013 online at royalmail.com/stamps and at Post Offices across the UK. You can also pre-order your stamps by registering at royalmail.com/DoctorWho.
[via Geeks Are Sexy via Topless Robot]
We’d probably all agree the Internet is the real revolution of the modern era, but today marks an older, parallel milestone that also brims with significance. On July 10th, 1962 — back when JFK fretted over Russian missiles in Cuba and Bob Dylan sang In My Time of Dying — NASA pelted the Telstar 1 satellite out into orbit, following a team effort by AT&T, Bell Labs and the British and French post offices. Two days later, the world’s first transatlantic TV signal made its way from Maine to Brittany, via a quick stop-over in the heavens, and a new age of international communication was born. Kennedy forgot his troubles for a moment to tidy his hair and grin at France, who replied with a chirpy performance by Yves Montand. It didn’t last long: Telstar 1 gave up its spherical ghost after just a few months and 400 transmissions, but by then, of course, the message had been delivered.
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