Goin' Postal, Huh?

So here’s the 411, The U.S. Postal Service has switched up from the usual. Let’s back up a little bit. The Postal Service is on the verge of losing billions of dollars and in my opinion, in dire need of a life saver. With the world as it is today and with the way electronics is aiming to put everything that has to do with print over and forgotten, there may barely be enough room for mail.

Now, back to the present topic at hand, what can the U.S. Postal Service do to make revenue they need? One option they’ve resorted to is what’s gotten my attention. They have come to a conclusion that they will present the world with the first stamp with a celebrity that is still alive to be on sale! This is a huge shocker given that they’ve never put a face of a famous person that was still alive on the stamp before. According to the New York Times, the only way the postal service would allow a famous person to be on a stamp is if the person was dead for at least five years. Now you understand the importance of this.

In doing this, The U.S. Postal Service is also seeking to get attention from the young adult generation. Sure they want stamp collectors to get as many as they can in hopes of adding to the amount of new postal buyers on board but they’re after us. My theory is that in getting us on board, they’ve got another wave of faithful buyers for at least another generation in hopes of us passing it on to our next generation so they don’t die.

Personally, I feel that if you’re not forgotten; keep on trying so you’re not just a memory. I don’t really know how this is going to pan out because it can only go two ways. One being that it’s an epic fail. Think about it, we have TECHNOLOGY for heaven’s sake. Everything we need to communicate is either on a laptop/computer or a hi-tech cellular device. Print is really being pushed against the wall. Kids don’t want to have to write something unless it’s for school. We text, email if that, social network each other, video chat…not WRITE A LETTER!

On the other hand, you can’t be dependent on technology because they backfire. Mail doesn’t get deleted unless we manually throw it out or shred it. No one can hack our mail unless we have a nosey mail person on our hands. Sometimes when it’s written, it means a little more because it means you took the time out to do so.

It’s an iffy outcome for the postal service. Whether it sinks or swims, I believe it’s up to how we accept it. If we’re against it, we won’t want to make it thrive. If we’re ready to see what it has to offer and what other ideas they can think of, then they don’t dig a deeper ditch for themselves.

They’re goin’ postal!